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Science & Tech 2 years ago
Black hole is observed snacking on sun-like star, bite by bite
Researchers said they have observed a supermassive black hole at the center of a relatively nearby galaxy as it takes bites out of a star similar in size and composition to our sun, consuming material equal to about three times Earth's mass each time the star makes a close pass on its elongated oval-shaped orbit.
Science & Tech 3 years ago
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A 'cataclysmic' celestial couple gone wrong - a star eats its mate
Researchers this week described one of these marriages gone wrong - a twosome that borders on the extreme, with the pair whirling around each other every 51 minutes in the fastest such orbital period known for a rare class of binary stars. As part of the drama, one star is eating its companion.
Science & Tech 3 years ago
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Gluttonous cosmic 'black widow' is heaviest-known neutron star
Astronomers have observed the most-massive known example of an object called a neutron star, one classified as a "black widow" that got particularly hefty by gobbling up most of the mass of a stellar companion trapped in an unhappy cosmic marriage.
Science & Tech 3 years ago
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Meet the 'zombie star' that survived a supernova blast
Astronomers have observed a star in a relatively nearby galaxy that not only survived what ordinarily should have been certain death, a stellar explosion called a supernova, but emerged from it brighter than before the blast.
