Black hole-star pair orbiting at dizzying speed

Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - 08:30 in Astronomy & Space

ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope has helped to identify a star and a black hole that orbit each other at the dizzying rate of once every 2.4 hours, smashing the previous record by nearly an hour.

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