binary star

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The discovery helps fill in knowledge about the binary star systems that populate the universe, while also raising questions about why astronomers have never seen such a pair in our Milky Way galaxy.

From New York Times

A luminous star called a red giant orbits with the black hole in a so-called binary star system named V723 Mon.

From Reuters

But many other binaries appear to have roughly aligned axes of rotation, which is what astrophysicists expect when the two black holes began their lives as a binary star system.

From Scientific American

How binary stars could become black hole mergers, and a prehistoric massacre.

From Nature

Further afield, this discovery has implications for exomoon populations, binary stars and even for cases where close-orbiting planets are raising tides in their parent stars.

From Scientific American