Science
Mystery of gamma radiation solved: Hidden cannibal star is just having dinner – Livescience.com
Don’t get too close to this redback.
The mystery at the heart of an unexplained, bright point of gamma-ray light in the sky has been solved: There’s a deadly spider star flaying a second, wimpier star to bits, sending out rapid-fire bursts of gamma radiation in the process
“Black widows” and “redbacks” in astronomy, as Live Science previously reported
, are species of neutron stars the ultradense remnant cores of giant stars that exploded. Some neutron stars, called pulsars, rotate at regular intervals, flashing like lighthouses. The…
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