Mysterious Kuiper Belt Object May Hold Key to Solving the '3-Body Problem'

Mysterious Kuiper Belt Object May Hold Key to Solving the '3-Body Problem'

Astronomers have discovered what they believed to be a rare stable trio of gravitationally bound Kuiper Belt objects, offering new clues to the enduring “3-body problem.” The discovery, made using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Hawaii’s Keck Observatory, revealed what astronomers identified as possible support for a controversial theory that certain Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) could have been formed by the gravitational collapse of primordial …