Astronomers have long faced a strange contradiction: most stars are born in pairs, and ...
Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of ...
Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive black holes, or “hot Jupiters,” astronomers can spend months or years ...
"This makes TOI-2267 the first binary system known to host transiting planets around both of its stars." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...
Artist’s impression of the nu Octantis system. Image generated by ChatGPT-4.0 and further modified by Trifon TRIFONOV using the GNU Image Manipulation Programme. Most stars in the Universe exist in ...
"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of black hole binaries." ...
New Hubble observations explain how blue straggler stars form, showing that binary systems in low-density clusters play a key role ...
N-body simulations of primordial binaries and tidal capture in open clusters / Sverre J. Aarseth -- When and how can binary data test stellar models / Birgitta Nordstrom / Johannes Anderson -- ...