A Monash-University-led collaboration has, for the first time, observed the full, 12-day process of material spiraling into a distant neutron star, triggering an X-ray outburst thousands of times brighter than our Sun.
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Source:
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-astronomers-capture-pulsar-powering.html