A team of researchers has discovered a completely new cosmic collision mechanism, ‘kiss and catch’, in which bodies collide but are not destroyed, but rather remain together briefly before separating and forming a binary system.
Billions of years ago, in the frigid reaches of our solar system, two icy worlds collided. But instead of destroying each other in a violent cosmic catastrophe, the two remained united in an endless ‘kiss’, spinning together like an enormous snowman. Bit …
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