Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
A star system 5,000 light-years from Earth, surrounded by layers of dust, could help scientists better understand the final ...
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D9, as the newly discovered binary star is called, was detected just in time: it is estimated to be only 2.7 million years old, and the strong gravitational force of the nearby black hole will ...
Scientists want to know if a tidal disruption event that exploded twice is the result of a star abandoning its binary partner ...
Binary stars, pairs of stars orbiting each other, are very common in the universe, but they had never before been found near a supermassive black hole, where the intense gravity can make stellar ...
Binary stars, pairs of stars orbiting each other, are very common in the Universe, but they had never before been found near a supermassive black hole, where the intense gravity can make stellar ...
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 ...
Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS), an international team ...
Observations of VFTS 243 provide evidence that black holes can form directly from the collapse of massive stars, without a ...
An international study has discovered a binary star orbiting near a supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. This is the first time a binary star has been found near a supermassive ...