Scientists discover "two dead stars" at 8000 light-years

Astronomers have discovered a new system of "two dead stars" moving one at a time every seven minutes. Fast orbits make it the fastest recorded binary system to date.

Scientists have launched the new discovery name ZTF J1539 + 5027 The details were published Wednesday in a magazine Nature, The researchers use a tool that performs a comprehensive study of the sky, designed to locate objects whose brightness changes rapidly.

And when we look at a constellation BoottThe researchers discovered the pair of dead stars about 8000 light-years apart and the white caterpillars are very close together, with only 80 000 kilometers away, traveling hundreds of kilometers per second.

Astronomers officially know this system under the name of "binary eclipse" because one of the stars continually pbades in front of the other, and the two stars have a mbad similar to that of our sun, but they are not twins.

"When the dark star pbades in front of the brightest star, it masks most of the light, producing a seven-minute flash pattern," said Kevin Birdage, author Main of the study.