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Extreme ‘Black Widow’ Star Identified as Source of Mystery Gamma Radiation – ScienceAlert
For more than two decades, astronomers have been systematically tracing mystery sources of high-energy gamma rays to their sources.
For more than two decades, astronomers have been systematically tracing mystery sources of high-energy gamma rays to their sources.
One, however, remained stubborn – the brightest unidentified source of gamma rays in the Milky Way. It seemed to be coming from a binary system 2,740 light-years away, but only one of the stars could be found.
Now, astronomers have solved the mystery and pinned down that second star by searching gamma-ray data obtained between 2008 and 2018. Together, the two stars…
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