Record-breaking ‘black-widow’ pulsar found just 3,000 light-years from Earth | Space
… The newly discovered black-widow binary, designated ZTF J1406+1222 (the numbers refer to its coordinates on the sky), is the tightest black-widow binary known, with the pulsar and the companion locked in an orbital dance with a period of just 62 minutes. There’s also a third star in the system on a very wide orbit of 10,000 years. …
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