Newslink: 30 'Homeless' Binary Stars Spotted Drifting in the Void Outside Any Known Galaxy

in #newslink6 years ago

When two stars love each other (and are sufficiently massive and sufficiently close in space), they might start going steady. Astronomers call these stellar partners binary star systems, because the smitten suns do everything together. They orbit around each other, pool their gases together and sometimes even come back from the dead together.

https://www.space.com/binary-stars-booted-out-of-galaxies.html

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