{"id":238464,"date":"2026-06-06T02:19:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/magnetic-field-helps-binary-star-systems-form-new-simulations-indicate"},"modified":"2026-06-06T02:19:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:19:02","slug":"magnetic-field-helps-binary-star-systems-form-new-simulations-indicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/magnetic-field-helps-binary-star-systems-form-new-simulations-indicate","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic field helps binary star systems form, new simulations indicate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/magnetic-field-helps-binary-star-systems-form-new-simulations-indicate.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New simulations show that interactions with a magnetic field can work to decrease the distance between still forming binary protostars. These results can help explain the characteristics of the binary star systems observed in the Milky Way. The results can also be extrapolated to binary black holes, giving insights into how supermassive black holes evolve.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/mnras\/article\/doi\/10.1093\/mnras\/stag669\/8651299\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.<\/p>\n<p>Stars form from clouds of interstellar gas that collapse into dense regions known as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-10-massive-stars-born-violent-cosmic.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">molecular cloud cores<\/a>. Multiple stars form close together simultaneously, and in some cases two stars will become gravitationally bound to each other, forming a binary star system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New simulations show that interactions with a magnetic field can work to decrease the distance between still forming binary protostars. These results can help explain the characteristics of the binary star systems observed in the Milky Way. The results can also be extrapolated to binary black holes, giving insights into how supermassive black holes evolve. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}