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Blinking Giant Star is a Mystery at the Heart of the Milky Way

A mysterious blinking giant star found at the heart of the Milky Way represents another example of a rare eclipsing binary system.

Massive Black Hole Could Challenge Stellar Evolution Theories

With a mass of 21 times that of the sun, the black hole of Cygnus X-1 challenges theories of stellar evolution.

Astronomers find two failed stars wandering the universe together

Astronomers have discovered an exotic binary system consisting of two brown dwarfs orbiting each other.

This star is so massive it's forming another star instead of planets

Now, that's a first!

Hubble snaps the first binary-asteroid comet we've ever seen

Asteroids of a feather flock together. Sometimes into a comet.

Mysterious object at the heart of Milky Way might be a Merged Star

A mysterious cosmic object thought to be an immense cloud of gas and dust left scientists scratching their heads after it wasn’t consumed by the supermassive black hole that lies at the center of our galaxy. After it passed a critical point in its orbit around the black hole – where a gas cloud would […]

A 'Ying Yang' binary system that can sustain Planetary Formation

A group from the Laboratory of Astrophysics of Bordeaux, France, and the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) has made a most exciting discovery. The astronomers found that an odd binary system – a solar system comprised of two stars – actually behaves like a double star, with two disks of matter encircling the system in a […]

Scientists find double supermassive black hole

Astronomers have for the first time discovered a pair of supermassive black holes that orbit each other in an ordinary galaxy. At the heart of most galaxies, there lies a supermassive black hole – as you probably already figured out from the name, it’s like a normal black hole, but much bigger. But two supermassive […]

Sending a text message using Vodka molecules - the first continuous molecular communication

In nature, organisms communicate in various ways, be it through acoustic or biological signals. Insects, for instance, communicate and relay important information, such as a threat to a hive, using pheromones – an excreted chemical with a particular signature. Scientists at the University of Warwick in the UK and the York University in Canada have […]

Most powerful stars are actually vampire binary systems. The weaker feeds on the stronger

A new research has found that the massively powerful O-type stars, which can be up to 90 times more powerful than our own sun, actually come in pairs most of the time, as a binary system. The two stars wrapper in this dance have a special kind of relationship developed with one another. Thus, one […]