Article’s Title: « Maux de la planète: étoile binaire proche d’un trou noir et risque de tsunamis – L’actu des sciences en ultrabreves »
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An international team of astronomers has discovered an egg-shaped star system, consisting of two stars and a black hole, located 3,000 light-years away from Earth. This system, named « Three Musketeers, » has a peculiar behavior: every 2.5 days, the smaller star orbits the black hole and gets stretched due to the black hole’s strong gravitational pull. This causes a mass transfer to the bigger star, which eventually leads to an explosion, generating a shockwave that reaches the third star. This phenomenon could potentially trigger a tsunami-like effect in space.
The study of this system could help understand the complex dynamics of multiple star systems near black holes and the dramatic ways they interact with each other.