It's around 1.6 times the mass of the Sun, Howell and his colleagues believe, at an orbital separation of 4 astronomical ...

Chinese astronomers have employed NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to observe an eclipsing binary of the Algol-type, designated V455 Car. Results of the observational campaign ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new ultracompact binary of the AM CVn type exhibiting infrequent outbursts. The detection of the newfound system, designated TCP ...

The Binary number system represents a number either by 0 or 1. For any number to be represented in Binary form, it undergoes a binary conversion. Example: 1 is 001, 2 is 010, 3 is 011, 4 is 0100, 5 is ...

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Binary stars can’t survive long near the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole — but for the first time, astronomers have managed to spot one.

The multi-dimensional logarithmic number system (MDLNS), with similar properties to the logarithmic number system (LNS), provides more degrees of freedom than the LNS by virtue of having two ...

Astronomers have discovered a "missing link": a tiny black hole lurking with a red giant star in a strange and difficult-to-explain binary system.

Binary stars are two stars that orbit a mutual center of gravity. It is the most common type of multistar system.