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 ...

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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 centre of ...

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 ...

A repeating fast radio burst has just given up one of its biggest secrets. Long-term observations revealed a rare signal ...

Astronomers recently released a new image of the binary star system Eta Carinae's full spectrum, taken from deep in Chile's Atacama Desert. The image was captured with the newly installed SOAR ...

Astronomers have confirmed a giant planet orbiting a tightly bound pair of young stars, marking a first in direct exoplanet imaging. The planet, known as HD 143811 AB b, is the closest-in world ever ...

In theory, it could happen – one of the very first solutions to the three-body problem was this scenario. But it is very unlikely to be stable over time. You need the stars to have near equal mass and ...