Astronomers discover binary stars in ‘impossibly’ tight orbits
A team of scientists using the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope ( UKIRT ) in Hawaii have find four dissimilar pairs of binary system whose stars are so close to each other that it takes them less than four hours to orbit one another . Previous estimates indicate that stars should n’t be allowed to do this — they should consume each other , creating one giant mass . This observance forces astronomers to shed out previously held notions of what binary star systems might bet like ....