Binary star composed of two brown dwarfs discovered by microlensing
Tuesday, May 23, 2017 - 09:01
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org)—Using gravitational microlensing, astronomers have recently found a binary star composed of two brown dwarfs. The newly discovered system is the third brown-dwarf binary detected with this technique. The finding was presented in a paper published May 16 on the arXiv pre-print server.