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A new discovery out of UCLA's Galactic Center Orbits Initiative found that stars that were once believed to come in pairs actually merge together due to a supermassive black hole. Devin Chu, a Hilo-born astronomer led a 10-year survey of young stars near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy using the Keck Observatory on Maunakea.
The stellar companions of more than a dozen stars orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy have gone missing, and astronomers want to know why.
Highlights from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Scientific American and others.
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 in pairs, but the new study found that all 16 of the stars were singletons. The findings support a scenario in which the supermassive black hole drives nearby stars to either merge or be disrupted, with one of the pair being ejected from the system.