Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.
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Scientists finally have explanation for the missing planets of tight binary stars
Astronomers have long faced a strange contradiction: most stars are born in pairs, and ...
General relativity helps explain the lack of planets around tight binary stars by driving orbital resonances that eject or destroy close-in worlds. This process naturally creates a “desert” of ...
Cosmic relationships in space mirror human connections, with some stars locked in destructive, codependent partnerships.
Researchers at Oxford University and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) are ...
For a single supermassive black hole, extremely strong lensing occurs only when a star lies almost exactly along the line of ...
New research suggests Einstein's general relativity explains the rarity of planets orbiting two suns. In tight binary systems, relativistic effects cause orbital resonances that destabilize planets, ...
Astronomers have found a new explanation for mysterious cosmic radio pulses. These long-period transients, previously ...
Ferris State University student researcher Francisco Vasquez worked with his professor, Dr. Dinesh Shetty, to create new orbital models for binary star systems, four of which have been adopted by the ...
Cosmic radio pulses repeating every few minutes or hours, known as long-period transients, have puzzled astronomers since ...
Cosmic radio pulses repeating every few minutes or hours, known as long-period transients, have puzzled astronomers since ...
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