Troxxies t1_ird9m92 wrote on October 7, 2022 at 4:01 AM Reply to comment by Mzkazmi in Astronomers find a “cataclysmic” pair of stars with the shortest orbit yet: The stars circle each other every 51 minutes, confirming a decades-old prediction by Additional-Two-7312 They test stuff like this in-case they are wrong, if they were wrong they'd have to rethink the math involved and who knows we might be doing some math wrong at the moment, in which case it'd be very very impactful. Permalink Parent 15
Troxxies t1_ird9m92 wrote
Reply to comment by Mzkazmi in Astronomers find a “cataclysmic” pair of stars with the shortest orbit yet: The stars circle each other every 51 minutes, confirming a decades-old prediction by Additional-Two-7312
They test stuff like this in-case they are wrong, if they were wrong they'd have to rethink the math involved and who knows we might be doing some math wrong at the moment, in which case it'd be very very impactful.