Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/EinsteinProbe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EinsteinProbe</span></a> finds twin cannibal <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/stars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stars</span></a> that have spent 40 million years taking turns eating each other<br>Larger of two stars started to expand, as stars do late in life, and became white dwarf with same mass as sun. Second sun – which started life as smaller one - pulled in gas from its dying companion , eventually growing to become Be star that massed about 12 times more than Sol.<br>By this time, white dwarf's gravity meant it was able to absorb matter from Be star. <br><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/19/einstein_probe_twin_stars_revealed/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/02/19/ein</span><span class="invisible">stein_probe_twin_stars_revealed/</span></a></p>