Nature Astronomy, Published online: 30 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41550-024-02388-4

The surprising presence of several very wide binary systems of the Kuiper belt can be explained by the gradual widening of initially tighter binaries by the gravitational effects of passing bodies.

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