Mysterious 'Black Widow' Binary With Shortest Orbit Yet Discovered. Here's What We Know So Far - ABP Live

The stellar oddity is a new 'black widow binary', which is a rapidly spinning neutron star, or pulsar, that is circling and slowly consuming a smaller companion star.

New Delhi: Astronomers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States have discovered a new and mysterious system 3,000 light-years from Earth, thanks to the flashing of a ne… [+5719 chars]

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