Astronomers Capture First Direct Image of Two Supermassive Black Holes in Binary Orbit

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking observation by directly imaging both supermassive black holes in a binary system located in the galaxy OJ 287, about 3.5 billion light-years away. This is the first time distinct jets from both black holes have been captured, providing definitive evidence o... [More info]

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Scientists have discovered over 150 binary asteroid systems in our solar system.

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> The binary star system in the constellation Corona Borealis — “northern crown” — is normally too dim to see with the naked eye.
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> But every 80 years or so, exchanges between its two stars, which are locked in a deadly embrace, spark a runaway nuclear explosion.

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-huge-star-explosion-sky-lifetime.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_Coronae_Borealis

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Huge star explosion to appear in sky in once-in-a-lifetime event

Sometime between now and September, a massive explosion 3,000 light years from Earth will flare up in the night sky, giving amateur astronomers a once-in-a-lifetime chance to witness this space oddity.

Phys.org
Binary system discovered with two stars so close together they could fit inside the sun

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 and close together they could fit inside the sun. The team has submitted a paper describing their findings for publication in The Open Journal of Astrophysics; currently, it is posted on the arXiv preprint server.

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Astronomers may have spotted never-before-seen mysterious star made of dark matter

Future observations of the star can help review scenarios of finding cosmic objects made of dark matter

The Independent
Astronomers may have spotted never-before-seen mysterious star made of dark matter | The Independent
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https://www.independent.co.uk/space/dark-matter-star-boson-gaia-b2344708.html
Astronomers may have spotted never-before-seen mysterious star made of dark matter

Future observations of the star can help review scenarios of finding cosmic objects made of dark matter

The Independent

Scholz's Star (WISE designation WISE 0720−0846) is a dim binary stellar system 22 light-years (6.8 parsecs) from the Sun, that passed through the Solar System's Oort cloud roughly 70,000 years ago.

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Interstellar visitor ’Oumuamua probably came from a two-star system

Astronomers studying the interstellar asteroid ’Oumuamua find that it probably formed around a binary star