A Distant Star is Slowly Snacking on a Brown Dwarf
Astronomers have observed a red dwarf star, 85 Jupiter masses, slowly accreting material from a nearby 25‑Jupiter‑mass brown dwarf in the ZTF J0440+2325 system about 300 light‑years away. The brown dwarf orbits the star every 87 minutes, transferring roughly 40 million dump‑truck volumes of matter each second, a process expected to last billions of years.
Source: A Distant Star is Slowly Snacking on a Brown Dwarf — Nautilus
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