Small Star Is Slowly Consuming a Brown Dwarf That Circles It Every 87 Minutes, MIT Astronomers Report

Nature World News | 15.10.2026 11:48
A small red dwarf star roughly 300 light-years from Earth is slowly stripping material from a brown dwarf that whips around it every 87 minutes, astronomers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology report. The team says it is the first time scientists have caught a low-mass star steadily feeding on another low-mass object.