Two baby stars may have arrived together in space after a cosmic encounter

Two baby stars were observed with separate paths before starting their gravitational dance, which suggests that some of the most massive stars in the Milky Way may not be born in pairs, but end up together after a cosmic encounter. The discovery reinforces the possibility that massive binary stars form through close encounters between young objects that approach each other gravitationally. This cosmic scenario implies that stars that initially formed separately may eventually be captured by each other, creating binary systems. The observation of these two young stars with distinct trajectories before interacting provides evidence for this theory about the formation of massive binary stars in our galaxy.