V404 CYGNI 

A record-breaking trinary Black Hole system found By astronomers. system provides strong evidence for the direct collapse model of black hole formation.

In Cygnus, 7,800 light-years away, the V404 Cygni black hole system unveiled a new feature—a third star with a wide 70,000-year orbit.

This discovery makes the system a trinary, consisting of the black hole, a closely orbiting companion star (6.5-day orbit), and the newly identified distant star.

This finding challenges the conventional supernova model of black hole formation, where a star's explosion is expected to break weak gravitational bonds like the wide orbit observed here.

It suggests that black holes could form through a direct collapse mechanism, where a massive star implodes into a black hole without a dramatic explosion.

The Gaia mission helped identify the triple system by showing the black hole and distant star move together, indicating a gravitational link.

The new star's wide orbit (3,500 AU from the black hole) is hard to explain with a supernova, which likely would have disrupted the weak gravitational link.

The evidence supports the idea that the system's components were gravitationally bound before the black hole formed via direct collapse.