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An artist’s vision of an exotic binary system illustrates how matter is drawn from the roughly solar-mass star into the black hole. (Image courtesy of M. Weiss (CXC), NASA on the Astronomy Picture of the Day Web site.)
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8-901s06.jpg
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Picture of a star orbiting a black hole.
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An artist’s vision of an exotic binary system illustrates how matter is drawn from the roughly solar-mass star into the black hole. (Image courtesy of M. Weiss (CXC), NASA on the Astronomy Picture of the Day Web site.)
![Picture of a star orbiting a black hole.](/courses/8-901-astrophysics-i-spring-2006/9a67f4cef2d9dbe9258bd862f4145b02_8-901s06.jpg)