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Kiona Smith

The 'Star Trek: Discovery' Series Finale Features Ridiculously Weird But Real Physics

— Paramount

In the penultimate episode of Star Trek: Discovery, gravity is a major plot point. The Discovery crew tracks a shuttle full of Progenitor technology to a dead star system, now made up of a pair of black holes, and finds the shuttle hanging out at one of the system’s Lagrange points. But what, exactly, is a Lagrange point, and how does it work? Does a system like that really exist?

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