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Cameron Norton

1 articles · 4 co-authors · latest: 2026-06-01

Smoldering Ember in a Star’s Heart: Two Apocalypse Scenarios

These objects are one of the biggest mysteries and a possible key to dark matter. New modeling has revealed a rare but spectacular scenario with two outcomes for capture by a binary system. Without an accretion disk, the star fades unnoticed; with a disk, it is torn apart by relativistic jets in min
arXiv:2606.02700v1 · 2026-06-01