A team of astronomers has found the first binary star system, D9, near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. Previously ...
In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly ...
Are they stars? Are they planets? Or are they neither? Some rogue planetary mass objects that wander the cosmos alone could ...
An international team of astrophysicists led by the Netherlands and the UK have discovered that radio pulses lasting seconds ...
Northwestern University scientists have detected the first radio pulses that can be traced to a dead-star binary.
Artistic illustration showing the radio pulses emitted by the binary star system: a white dwarf in orbit around a red dwarf. Credit Daniëlle Futselaar/artsource.nl In a breakthrough discovery, an ...