Deadly Resonance: How Stars Toss Out Planets ⚡ экспресс
Original: "Capture into Apsidal Resonance and the Decimation of Planets around In-spiraling Binaries"
Tight binary stars fling out planets by rocking them with gravity in perfect rhythm.
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Two stars draw close in gravity’s embrace, setting off a cosmic pendulum: the planet around them starts swinging until it flies away. This is how lonely rogue planets are born, leaving tight pairs childless.
🎯 Some binary stars complete a full orbit in just a few hours — their “day” is shorter than a workday. And the distance between them is smaller than from the Sun to Mercury.