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Binary Stars Keep Masquerading as Black Holes

April 13, 2022

Binary Stars Keep Masquerading as Black Holes

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

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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