Imagine this. Two stars are orbiting each other. They've been together for their whole lives. They formed from the same cloud of gas and dust, millions of years ago. They're close together. And normally such stars could expect to grow old together. Only these stars are being assailed by a massive, invisible interloper. A black hole, with the mass of a h…
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