Somewhere in the depths of our universe, a stellar ballet is underway.
Against the dark curtain of space, three enormous, glittering stars are locked in a dance by
slot their own gravitational forces and aglow in their shared luminescence. Two blazing balls of gas are tightly pirouetting around each other, completing their mutual orbit to the rhythm of an Earth day. Simultaneously, a third star steadily encircles the pair, casting a spotlight on the performance.
Details of the cosmic situation can be found in a paper published in June in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.As far as we know, it is the first of its kind ever detected," Alejandro Vigna-Gomez, an astrophysicist at the University of Copenhagen and co-author of the paper, said in a statement Monday