By constructing the perpendicular bisector of the line connecting Alice and Bob, we select relay nodes located on Alice’s side. From these candidate relay nodes, we choose the kth nearest node to Bob.

The newly discovered planet has a polar orbit, which is perpendicular to the plane in which the two stars are travelling. If you thought planets only circled stars in neat, flat disks, think again.

Ultimately, the only physical scenario that could explain it was one involving a planet-sized object orbiting the two stars, tracing out an ellipse perpendicular to the stars’ orbits.

Researchers believe that pair 2M1510 is orbited by a planet in a "polar", or perpendicular, orbit. This is the first time we've seen strong evidence for a stellar pair being orbited by a polar planet.

The newly discovered planet has a polar orbit, which is perpendicular to the plane in which the two stars are travelling. Polar planets around single stars had been found before, as well as polar ...

Center for Quantum Matter, School of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China Department of Applied Physics, School of Engineering Sciences, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, ...