Astronomers have gotten a good look at what happens when a 'vampire' star sucks the outer layers of material from a companion star, stripping this 'bitten' victim down to a mere stellar core.
An artist's impression shows a "Vampire" star, composed of an oblate star with a disc around it and B-type star that has been stripped of its atmosphere , in this handout photo. Courtesy ESO/L. Calcada/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT.
"This can be done if the stars travel close enough to each other and the gravitational pull of one star pulls material off the other star." This binary system is located roughly 1,000 light years - the distance light travels in a year, 5.9 trillion miles - from Earth. "Black holes exist in abundance, as once they've formed they are permanent. Not so with what it turned out to be: This is a short-lived - well, say some 10,000 years - transitional stage in the evolution of a special double-star system."
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