Rare 'black widow' binary star with shortest orbit ever identified - Hindustan Times

A team led by scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US found the stellar oddity, which appears to be a new black widow binary -- a rapidly spinning neutron star or pulsar that is circling and slowly consuming a smaller companion s…

Scientists have discovered a rare "triple black widow" system -- a pair of stars that rapidly circle each other before one is consumed by the other -- located some 3,000 light-years away. The star s… [+3769 chars]

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