"Quantum" may seem like a useless buzzword, but quantum computing is a real thing, and it's actually understandable even if ...

The star, TMTS J0526B, is a hot subdwarf that is only seven times the size of Earth, making it smaller than Saturn. This small stellar body, located approximately 2,760 light years away from Earth, ...

In 2017, astronomers found hypervelocity stars believed to have come from the Large Magellanic Cloud, supposedly kicked out ...

In context: Binary systems composed of a supermassive black hole and a much smaller singularity orbiting around it are crucial for studying gravitational wave events. Detecting them, however, is ...

Astronomers have identified a rare type of binary star system containing a rapidly spinning millisecond pulsar and a helium star companion, formed via common envelope evolution. Although such systems ...

Binary star system found near the Milky Way's black hole Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy, confirming a ...

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 ...

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The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...