With these tidal effects at that age, a gas giant would be most stable.
It could be minutes, hours, or even days before its tidal effects become overwhelming.
In most cases, the tidal effects of the primary would make such a system unstable.
I'd have been killed if I hadn't understood that tidal effect in time.
Near a black hole, such tidal effects can be very strong.
In most cases, the tidal effects of the main body would make such as unstable.
Worse: the tidal effect would have pulled the sections into line with the star's center of mass.
"Then we couldn't explain the big tidal effect," Max said.
That's tidal effects and volcanic activity, as I understand it.
This distance is large enough so that the two stars do not have a significant tidal effect on each other.