By searching sparsely populated regions of the galaxy, astronomers have for the first time found the source of a kind of signal that has puzzled them for years.
An illustration shows a white dwarf orbiting a small main sequence star in a binary system (Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)) The team used the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa to ...
More information: Steffani M. Grondin et al, The First Catalog of Candidate White Dwarf–Main-sequence Binaries in Open Star Clusters: A New Window into Common Envelope Evolution, The ...