Star Duet Spawns Ripples in Spacetime ⚡ экспресс
Original: "An eclipsing 8.56 minute orbital period mass-transferring binary"
Astronomers have discovered a cosmic duet whose accelerating dance shakes the fabric of space.
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An amazing star duet discovered: every 8.5 minutes, one star eclipses the other. Energy flies away as gravitational waves — ripples in space. In a few years, the LISA space detector will 'hear' them. It's like a tuning fork of the universe, sounding in the depths of space.
🎯 If an observer were a hundred kilometers from this system, they would see darkness fall every 8.5 minutes — one star briefly hides the other.
\dot{P} = -1.6 \times 10^{-12} \, \text{s/s}
Each second, the orbital period shrinks by 1.6 trillionths of a second.