In a first, a team of astronomers led by Florian Peißker from the University of Cologne, Germany, have discovered a binary star system orbiting a supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky Way ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is associated with wanton destruction, but a recent discovery throws that assumption into question. A team of international ...

A pair of stars with three planets in orbit around one star or the other is the first system of its kind that has been confirmed. Pairs of stars, known as binaries, appear to be more common in the ...

Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Most stars host planets, like our sun hosts our solar system, and if you look more broadly, groups of stars make up huge structures such as ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVS) are celestial bodies moving at speeds sufficient to escape the Milky Way's gravitational pull, with a primary proposed origin involving binary star interactions with the ...