Astronomers Just Watched a Dead Star Eat Its Neighbor, Which Is Pretty Sick
And they taped it, too. For the first time ever, scientists watched a pulsar "power up" before it gobbled up material from a nearby star and released an outburst of cosmic X-rays thousands of times brighter than the sun. After a star dies, it either turns into a black hole or neutron star. Pulsars …
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