Scientists have discovered a rare "triple black widow" system – a pair of stars that rapidly circle each other before one is consumed by the other – located some 3,000 light-years away.
The star system named "ZTF J1406+1222" has the shortest known orbit of any black widow binary i.e. 62 minutes, according to researchers.
What makes this system unique is that it contains a third star that circles the central pair every 10,000 years, according to the finding published in the journal Nature on May 4.
