We evolved the system up to a record-breaking 1.5 seconds of real time by using the Japanese supercomputer Fugaku." The researchers observed that following its merger, the binary neutron star system ...

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Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery of three Earth-sized planets orbiting within a compact binary star system. This rare configuration, where planets circle two stars simultaneously, ...

An international team of researchers led by PD Dr Florian Peißker has found the first binary star in the immediate vicinity of the supermassive black hole Sgr A* (Sagittarius A star) at the centre of ...

Astronomers have detected a binary star system orbiting Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole. Credit: ESO / S. Guisard Just on the outskirts of a supermassive black hole ...