Claude claims discovery of new binary red dwarf pair ~500 light-years away
nitarshan · x · 2026-10-09
Mehran Jalali reports that Claude claimed to discover a new pair of stars about 500 light-years away: two red dwarfs, each roughly 1/7 the Sun's mass, orbiting each other closer together than the Sun is wide. If verified, it would be a rare case of an AI model producing a genuine scientific discovery, pending independent confirmation.
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