Einstein Probe Captures a Rare Celestial Duo Igniting the X-ray Sky

The Einstein Probe, using its innovative lobster-eye X-ray telescope, has captured an ultra-rare celestial event — a bright X-ray flare from a system where a white dwarf and a massive Be star orbit in a complex dance of stellar evolution. Scientists have long suspected such systems existed, but this is the first time one has [...]

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