Tucked away in a star-forming region in the Taurus constellation, a pair of circling stars are displaying some unexpected ...
A group of international researchers have discovered a binary star orbiting near a supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way. The study, published in the peer-reviewed ...
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.
Red Giant and a White Dwarf R Aquarii consists of a red giant star and a white ... in the nebula as parts of it are illuminated by the rotating beam of light from the binary system.