binary star system Two zombie stars are eating their companions and creating cosmic chaos White dwarfs can eat planets and stars and blast out VAST amounts of energy. By Phil Plait 1 week ago Just how many stars *is* Albireo, and is one of them a black hole? By Phil Plait 7 months ago The Sun is surrounded by millions of binary stars! By Phil Plait 9 months ago The weirdest binary: Planet and not-a-star barely orbit each other By Phil Plait 10 months ago Was the Sun once part of a binary star system? By Phil Plait 1 year ago A rare find: An eclipsing binary brown dwarf in a triple brown dwarf system By Phil Plait 1 year ago ALMA sees the twisted birth of a binary star system By Phil Plait 2 years ago For the first time, astronomers see the birth of a neutron star binary system By Phil Plait 2 years ago The star HD 4113 is way, *way* more than meets the eye By Phil Plait 3 years ago
Two zombie stars are eating their companions and creating cosmic chaos White dwarfs can eat planets and stars and blast out VAST amounts of energy. By Phil Plait 1 week ago
For the first time, astronomers see the birth of a neutron star binary system By Phil Plait 2 years ago
![The two stars of the binary system [BHB2007] 11 are in the process of forming, drawing material from the disk surrounding both via a pair of filaments, wound up due to the motion of the stars around each other. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Alves et al.](/sites/syfy/files/styles/watch_thumbnail_tablet_1_5x_16_9/public/alma_binarystars.jpg?h=a1c9a07d)
