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MIT Team Finds a Star Slowly Consuming a Brown Dwarf
Key Takeaways
- ZTF J0440+2325 is about 300 light-years from Earth.
- Its red dwarf and brown dwarf orbit every 86.65 minutes.
- Material from the brown dwarf flows onto the red dwarf and heats an impact hot spot.
- The transfer may persist for hundreds of thousands of years or possibly billions.
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