One of the most notable baby stars in the galaxy, T Tauri, could be about to vanish from sight for decades as a thick, obscuring disk of gas and dust marauds in front of it.
In a recent study, an Italian astronomer has investigated the nature of a binary system known as HD 49798/RX J0648.0–4418. Results of the new research, published Dec. 24 on the preprint server ...
Binary is a number system that only uses two digits, \(0\) and \(1\). It was invented by German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Binary code is used widely in computer programming ...
We looked for light emitted from one galaxy that showed signs of harboring a binary supermassive black hole system. Galaxies like the Milky Way are nearly as old as the universe. Sometimes ...
None of the systems are so close. The researchers assume that the binary star system they found, named D9, will merge into a single star in the near future. The discovery was published in Nature ...