13 December 2021
Did another star gatecrash our early Solar System?
... a star’s circumprimary disk. A circumprimary disk is one which orbits the primary (i.e. more massive) star of a binary system. To reach this conclusion, the research team performed 3D computer simulations of interacting stars and examined whether...
October 2024
Cinema and extraterrestrial archaeology
.... In Alien the space cargo ship Nostromo receives a radio signal emitted from LV-426, an exomoon located in the binary system of Zeta Reticuli, 39.5 light-years from Earth. Searching for the signal source on the surface of the planet...
13 August 2020
Fastest star in the galaxy is found, and potentially its a “squeezar”
...Sgr A* from a distance that is comparable to the size of our Solar System, is a small cluster of high velocity stars, known as the S-stars... speculate that the stars were once part of a stellar binary system, then one got kicked out as a runaway star, ...
28 June 2017
The existence of orbiting supermassive black holes finally confirmed
... to do this." The Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) is a system made up of 10 radio telescopes across the U.S. and operated in Socorro...order to plot their trajectory and confirm them as a visual binary system. "When Dr. Taylor gave me this data I was at...
18 October 2021
NASA's Lucy mission launches, encounters problem with solar panel
... space probe will revolutionise our understanding of the Solar System by studying “fossils” of planetary formation; Trojans. ...Main Belt asteroid and seven Trojans, four of which are binary systems. Providing Lucy is able to continue with its mission,...
17 January 2018
First inactive stellar-mass black hole found in a globular cluster
...However not a lot is known about what really happens in these systems. “Until recently, it was assumed that almost all black holes... the evolution of black holes and binary systems — vital in the context of understanding gravitational wave sources,” Giesers ...
