International researchers recently spotted a pair of stars orbiting around one another in surprisingly close proximity to ...
A supermassive black hole dubbed Sagittarius A* lurks at the heart of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The region surrounding ...
Astronomers have observed a binary star system orbiting near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way ...
It was previously thought that the gravitational forces around a black hole were too extreme for such a star system to ...
Scientists know stars can form near and even orbit these black hole behemoths, but they’ve never seen a pair of stars survive ...
Astronomers have discovered an important piece of the puzzle of how supermassive black holes ... it is difficult for gas to ...
At about 2.7 million years old, the twin stars seem to be fairly young. Scientists said they appear to orbit each other at ...
Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way ...
Binary stars can’t survive long near the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole — but for the first time, astronomers have ...
The newly discovered binary was found in a dense cluster of stars and other objects orbiting Sagittarius A*, called the S cluster. Most enigmatic in this cluster are the G objects, which behave like ...