New page: '''Binary stars''', also known as a '''binary system''', are a pair of gravitationally attracted stars that orbit around each other John Michell, the astronomer who firs...
'''Binary stars''', also known as a '''binary system''', are a pair of [[gravity | gravitationally]] attracted stars that orbit around each other [[John Michell]], the astronomer who first came up with the idea of [[black holes]], first discovered such a gravitational relationship between two binary stars in 1767.
[[Category: Astronomy]]
==References==
John Gribbin, ''Companion to the Cosmos'' (Little, Brown & Company, 1996)