Record-breaking 'black-widow' pulsar found just 3000 light-years from Earth - Space.com

The newfound system is the tightest such cannibalistic binary known.

A fast-spinning pulsar hungrily feeding on a close companion star has been found 3,000 light-years from Earth in a rare type of cannibalistic system known as a black-widow binary. Around two dozen b… [+3689 chars]

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