Figure 1: The observed number of core blue stragglers versus the number expected from single–single collisions. Figure 3: Results of fitting the generalized model to the observed blue straggler number ...

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Scientists analyzed over a decade's worth of data about 16 young supermassive stars orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Supermassive stars typically are formed ...

Stars orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy are mysteriously missing their binary companions, observations by the Keck Observatory in Hawaii have shown. Stars ...