Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Most stars host planets, like our sun hosts our solar system, and ...

An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It is the first time a stellar pair has ...

Classical novas, such as V462 Lupi, occur in a specific type of binary system, where a more massive white dwarf star is pulling material away from its larger partner.

Binary stars often appear as a single object in the night sky to the naked eye, but can often be detected with telescopes and the data they provide. The newly-discovered binary star system, which ...

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The binary star system discovered in the new study is the heaviest of its kind that's ever been confirmed, with a combined mass that's 1.56 times that of the sun.

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 ...