Scientists spot evidence of two huge companion stars that blew up
Scientists now for the first time have discovered evidence of two such massive stars from a binary system that both ran out of fuel and exploded violently within a relatively short time, each leaving behind a telltale cloud of glowing gas called a nebula.3, was produced by the explosion of the binary companion star, which had been at least 20 times more massive than the sun.“This system provides a rare opportunity to reconstruct the complete evolutionary history of a massive binary — from the birth and interaction of two massive stars, through both supernova explosions, to the remnants they left behind,” said Miltiadis Michailidis, a postdoctoral fellow in Stanford University’s physics department and lead author of the study published on Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.
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