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 ...

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.

Supermassive black hole binaries form naturally when galaxies merge, but scientists have only confidently observed a very few of these systems that are widely separated. Black hole binaries that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a binary star system, two stars orbit around each other. ESO/L. Calçada, CC BY Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our ...

New research suggests Einstein's general relativity explains the rarity of planets orbiting two suns. In tight binary systems ...

Two researchers have found an explanation for why we find almost no exoplanets orbiting binary stars. According to them, ...

Astronomers have long wondered why planets orbiting two stars like the iconic Tatooine in Star Wars are so rare. You would ...

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 ...

The eccentricity in the orbits of these black holes, detected using gravitational waves, could tell the story of their creation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to play all kinds of havoc on their orbiting circumbinary planets. When you ...

Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive black holes, or “hot Jupiters,” astronomers can spend months or years ...

Black hole week reaches its conclusion today (May 10), and there's no better way to mark the occasion than with some "eggs-traordinary" black hole science. This research is more than a mere curiosity ...