@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@ - +id="article-body" class="row " section="article-body" data-component="trackCWV"> Somewhere in the depths of our universe, a stellar ballet is underway. <br>Against the dark curtain of space, three enormous, glittering stars are locked in a dance by their own gravitational forces and aglow in their [https://www.google.com/search?q=shared%20luminescence&btnI=lucky shared luminescence]. Two blazing balls of gas are tightly pirouetting around each other, completing their mutual orbit to the rhythm of an Earth day.<br><br>Simultaneously, a third star steadily encircles the pair, casting a spotlight on the performance.<br><br>Details of the cosmic situation can be found in a paper  in [https://www.europeana.eu/portal/search?query=Monthly%20Notices Monthly Notices] of the Royal Astronomical Society.<br><br>"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 . <br><br>Though this animation is of a star and a [https://abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=black%20hole black hole] binary system, it helps illustrate what binary objects' motions would look like.<br> ESO/L.<br><br>Calçada <br>Even though we know of many tertiary star systems, per Vigna-Gomez, [https://www.bbcworldnewstoday.com/ BBC World News Today] not only are they much farther apart than this sparkly trio, but they're also [https://www.travelwitheaseblog.com/?s=typically typically] less massive. By quite a bit. <br> <br>According to the new paper, the internal, [https://topofblogs.com/?s=close-quarter%20binary close-quarter binary] stars hold a combined mass approximately 12 times that of our sun, and the wide-field globe surrounding them boasts a whopping 16 times the mass of our sun.