The universe is full of mysteries and mysteries. Millions of objects move around undetected. In fact, there is no dearth of such objects hidden in our own Milky Way galaxy. We know very little of them, yet they continue to affect our lives in many ways. While efforts to study these objects continue, astronomers have detected a new object about 3,000–4,000 light-years away, emitting mysterious flashes of light. They suspect that the object may be the elusive “Black Widow” star, a rapidly spinning pulsar or neutron star, which slowly proliferates by consuming its smaller companion star.
Black Widow stars are rare because astronomers have been able to detect only two dozen of them Galaxy, But researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who found this enigmatic object, believe it may be the strangest and most bizarre Black Widow pulsar of them all. He named the newest candidate ZTF J1406+1222.
The new candidate has the shortest orbital period ever identified, in which the pulsar and companion star orbit each other every 62 minutes, the researchers said. The system is unique because it seems to host a third star that orbits the two inner stars every 10,000 years, they couple In a statement on MIT’s website.
This three-star system is raising questions about how it might have formed. MIT Researchers have attempted a theory for its origin: they think the system likely originated from a dense constellation of older stars called globular clusters. This particular system may have moved away from the cluster towards the center of the Milky Way.
“This system has probably been floating around in the Milky Way longer than the Sun,” said lead researcher and physicist Kevin Burge in MIT’s Department of Physics.
they have been studied published In the journal Nature. It explains how the researchers used a new approach to detect this triple-star system. Most black widow binaries are detected through gamma and X-ray radiation emitted by the central pulsar, but MIT researchers use visible light to detect this system.