Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy, confirming a hypothesis made by happenstance nearly a century ago ...

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Astronomers have detected a binary star system orbiting Sagittarius A* ... 50 years ago — a kooky mathematical answer to a physics problem — but even astronomers at the top of their field ...

An international team of researchers led by PD Dr Florian Peißker has found the first binary star in the immediate vicinity of the supermassive black hole Sgr A* (Sagittarius A star) at the ...

For the first time, researchers have spotted a binary star — a system of two stars that orbit each other — near the Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Binary ...

The discovery, which relied on data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, marks the first time that a binary star system has been observed in the vicinity of a ...

The discovery of these binary stars, which are estimated to be only 2.7 million years old, is a significant step toward understanding how stellar systems form near supermassive black holes.

In a first, a team of astronomers led by Florian Peißker from the University of Cologne, Germany, have discovered a binary star system orbiting a supermassive black hole in the centre of the ...

This image indicates the location of the newly discovered binary star D9, which is orbiting Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It is the first star pair ever ...

Astronomers have discovered the first binary stars orbiting a supermassive black hole. The stellar pairing in question orbits the cosmic titan at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*.

In a first-of-its-kind discovery, a binary star has been found orbiting close to the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. The discovery, based on data collected by the European ...