Artist’s depiction of binary star system MACHO 80.7443.1718, with large waves rising on the larger star
Melissa Weiss/Center for Astrophysics/Harvard & Smithsonian
Towering waves extra three times the scale of the sun are crashing on an infinite, distant star.
The star in query is paired with one other in a extremely elliptical orbit. As the celebrities swing shut collectively, their gravities pull on one another to supply tidal waves, very like how the moon creates tides on Earth. This stretches the celebrities, inflicting them to bulge out on the equator, which makes them appear brighter for some time. …