Chinese astronomers find real 3-body system. It is not what Liu Cixin thinks

Chinese astronomers find real 3-body system. It is not what Liu Cixin thinks

In a case of life imitating art, Chinese researchers have discovered an ‘extremely rare’ three-star system that is not science fiction

One of the dead stars is a pulsar that spins more than 300 times a second, about as fast as the blades of a kitchen blender. It whirls around its partner, a white dwarf – the dim, burnt-out core of a smaller star – every eight days.