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Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
The discovery, which relied on data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, marks the first time that a binary star system has been observed in the vicinity of a ...
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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 ...
Observations of VFTS 243 provide evidence that black holes can form directly from the collapse of massive stars, without a ...
Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed ...
This image indicates the location of the newly discovered binary star D9, which is orbiting Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. It is the first star pair ever ...