How to Use binary system in a Sentence

binary system

noun

• The black hole lives in a binary system with an orange dwarf star.
  — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 17 June 2018
• In our neck of the galaxy, x-ray binary systems aren’t so common.
  — Sid Perkins, Science | AAAS, 4 Apr. 2018
• Many stars exist in pairs, or a binary system, unlike the sun.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 13 Aug. 2024
• And like stars, they can be found by themselves or in binary systems with a companion.
  — Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut, 2 July 2018
• Spica is actually not one star but two, what is known as a binary system.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 5 June 2025
• For instance, there may only be support for the binary system of genders.
  — Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• But the odds are good that it was born into a binary system that harbors at least one big, hot star, according to the new study.
  — Mike Wall, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2018
• Like many, my conceptions of gender fit neatly into the binary system laid out for us since youth.
  — Varuna Srinivasan, Allure, 27 June 2023
• Many stars are formed in binary systems, in which two stars orbit one another around a common center of mass.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 Apr. 2026
• Every single aspect of who you are constantly being looked at and put in a box in a very binary system.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 8 June 2023
• Each star in the WR 140 binary system is far more massive than the sun.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2022
• Around 50% of stars with masses around that of the sun exist in a binary system with another star.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2025
• The radar images showed the asteroid is roughly spherical and is one of a pair, called a binary system.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 July 2024
• In this binary system, astronomers realized, dust forms when the pair makes its closest approach.
  — Peter Tuthill, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
• However, it has also been predicted that, in a binary system, the two black hole spins will be anti-aligned.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2022
• The binary system then spirals around each other and are drawn together by the black hole’s gravity.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2024
• During that time, the spacecraft could use orbits around the binary system to ultimately fling it from the pair.
  — Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 12 Aug. 2025
• If the black hole happens to be in a binary system, where two stars revolve around each other, then the black hole begins to orbit the other star.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 19 July 2022
• If the object is a star, then this cloud is a circumsecondary disk, a cloud of gas and dust that orbits the less massive star in a binary system.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2026
• The planet’s host binary system consists of a neutron star or black hole which is devouring a massive nearby star at a huge rate.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 24 Sep. 2020
• The pitches climb higher and grow purer as the music takes the listener closer to the binary system.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
• Confirming that there really is a planet in the X-ray binary system is likely to take time.
  — NBC News, 18 Feb. 2021
• To cast a wider net, the team expanded their search to include binary systems with greater separation between the stars.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
• Searches have focused on binary systems where a star orbits a compact object, but until now astronomers had drawn a blank.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 14 July 2026
• Hitting a triple Most of the black holes that scientists have detected appear to be part of a pair called a binary system.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2024
• In a binary system, the two stars usually differ slightly in mass and move along stretched, elliptical paths.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 31 Jan. 2026
• Is there some new mechanism that kicks in at low masses that promotes Jupiter-class objects popping up in wide binary systems?
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2023
• The team also found that the huge star actually is part of a binary system, existing with a companion star.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 26 Feb. 2026
• The black hole is sitting calmly in a binary system, not doing anything in particular.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2024
• Black holes that merge through the triple process should have orbits that are less circular, or more eccentric, than those of black holes that merge from an undisturbed binary system.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Aug. 2019