Binary Stars Keep Masquerading as Black Holes

April 13, 2022

Binary Stars Keep Masquerading as Black Holes

Tharindu Jayasinghe Arachchilage, graduate student in the Department of Astronomy, thought he had discovered two star systems — Unicorn and Giraffe — with invisible black holes. Instead, reexamining the data revealed that each star system he stumbled upon had two stars in a never-before-seen stage of stellar evolution.

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A depiction of a black hole and star, what binary star systems are often mistaken as.