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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 first came up with the idea of black holes, first discovered such a gravitational relationship between two binary stars in 1767.
References
John Gribbin, Companion to the Cosmos (Little, Brown & Company, 1996)