Astronomers Discover a Rare “Black Widow” Binary, With the Shortest Orbit Yet
The flashing of a nearby star has attracted MIT astronomers to a new and mysterious system 3,000 light-years from Earth. The stellar oddity seems to be a new “black widow binary,” a rapidly rotating neutron star, or pulsar, circling and slowly consuming a smaller companion star, as its arachnid name does to its companion. Astronomers […]
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