Astronomers discover a rare “black widow” binary, with the shortest orbit yet - EurekAlert
MIT astronomers discovered a “black widow binary” — a rapidly spinning neutron star circling and slowly consuming a smaller companion star. Named ZTF J1406+1222, the pair has the shortest orbital period yet identified, and is unique in that it appears to host…
The flashing of a nearby star has drawn MIT astronomers to a new and mysterious system 3,000 light years from Earth. The stellar oddity appears to be a new “black widow binary” — a rapidly spinning n… [+5968 chars]
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