Reply to post: Re: Binars

The mysterious giant blobs of gas around our galaxy's black hole are actually massive merger stars being shredded

Mystic Megabyte
Alien

Re: Binars

According to the article on Phys.org

"Ghez believes all six objects were binary stars—a system of two stars orbiting each other—that merged because of the strong gravitational force of the supermassive black hole. The merging of two stars takes more than 1 million years to complete, Ghez said."

https://phys.org/news/2020-01-astronomers-class-strange-galaxy-enormous.html

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