Liu Cixin spent a trilogy writing about chaos; the stars read the reviews and decided to behave.

Chinese astronomers find real three-body system — not what Liu Cixin thinks

Astronomers using the FAST radio telescope in southwestern China discovered a three-star system 7,000 light years away, consisting of two dead stars and one living star in a stable orbit. One dead star is a pulsar spinning over 300 times per second. The system contrasts with the chaotic three-sun world in Liu Cixin's novel The Three-Body Problem.

Source: Chinese astronomers find real three-body system — not what Liu Cixin thinks — South China Morning Post

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