It might sound like science fiction, but astronomers may have discovered a neutron star consuming a companion star, known as a Black Widow Binary system. There are two dozen Black Widows in our own Milky Way galaxy. But what is a Black Widow and why does a neutron star’s spider-like behavior give it its name? Learn more on NSF’s “The Discovery Files.”
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