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Simulated tides near Sagittarius A* destroy enough binaries to match the S cluster's count
Rodrigo Silva's team at Coimbra counted 43% of the S-cluster stars as binaries, then ran 100,000 simulated pairs through the black hole's tides for a million years and finished at 38%, close enough to argue the stars were born where they orbit.
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