Burdge is lead author of apaper in this week’s issue of the journal Nature.
There’s a lot going on in this system.
The gravitational pull of this sadistic star is simultaneously sucking up gas and other material from its companion star.
The two stars take just 62 minutes to circle each other.
“There’s still a lot we don’t understand about it.
But we have a new way of looking for these systems in the sky.”
“Everything seems to point to it being a black widow binary.
