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Black widow pulsar is eating its companion in an hour-long dance
Black widow pulsar is eating its companion in an hour-long dance,Astronomers have discovered a new example of a creepy kind of dead star that shoots death rays so powerful they cook their binary companion star and eat its remains.  No, I’m not kidding. And this discovery is interesting because the two stars are closer together than any other object in its class, swinging around each other in an astonishing 62 minutes. This makes it a weird example of what’s a weird class of objects in the first place.

Black widow pulsar is eating its companion in an hour-long dance

Astronomers have discovered a new example of a creepy kind of dead star that shoots death rays so powerful they cook their binary companion star and eat its remains.  No, I’m not kidding. And this discovery is interesting because the two stars are closer together than any other object in its class, swinging around each other in an astonishing 62 minutes. This makes it a weird example of what’s a weird class of objects in the first place.