In our most basic understanding of our solar system, planets are drawn into the orbit of our massive star, the sun. But what happens to planet-sized objects that don't have a star? A team of astronomers studying Jupiter-mass ...
Planetary Sciences
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Astronomers at the University of Toronto have discovered a population of massive stars that have been stripped of their hydrogen envelopes by their companions in binary systems. The findings, published in Science, shed light ...
Astronomy
Dec 14, 2023
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OJ 287 is recognized as a binary black hole system with a slowly spiraling orbit caused by loss of energy to gravitational radiation. This energy loss was already confirmed in 2008. Subsequent measurements have confirmed ...
Astronomy
Nov 13, 2023
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On Nov. 1, NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew by not just its first asteroid, but its first two. The first images returned by Lucy reveal that the small main belt asteroid Dinkinesh is actually a binary pair.
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UMass Dartmouth Ph.D. students Tousif Islam (lead author) and Feroz H. Shaik, alongside Assistant Professor Vijay Varma and Associate Professor Scott Field (mathematics), recently published findings, on the pre-print server ...
Astronomy
Oct 23, 2023
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Astronomers using simulated data have produced a glimpse of the sky as it would appear in gravitational waves, cosmic ripples in space-time generated by orbiting objects. The image shows how space-based gravitational wave ...
Astronomy
Sep 20, 2023
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A small team of astrophysicists from the California Institute of Technology, the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research and the University of Amsterdam has discovered a binary system with two stars so small ...
They are mysterious, exciting and inescapable—black holes are some of the most exotic objects in the universe. With gravitational-wave detectors, it is possible to detect the chirp sound that two black holes produce when ...
Astronomy
Jul 31, 2023
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Dr. Varsha Ramachandran from the Center for Astronomy of Heidelberg University (ZAH) and her colleagues uncovered the first "stripped" star of intermediate-mass. This discovery marks a missing link in our picture of stellar ...
Astronomy
Jul 7, 2023
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Black holes, some of the most captivating entities in the cosmos, possess an immense gravitational pull so strong that not even light can escape. The groundbreaking detection of gravitational waves in 2015, caused by the ...
Astronomy
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