A new object in the Milky Way that is heavier than the heaviest neutron stars known to scientists, and yet lighter than the lightest known black holes, has been found by astronomers.

Researchers in Manchester and Germany found it orbiting a millisecond pulsar 40,000 light years away.

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Researchers from the University of Manchester and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, believe it could be the first discovery of a radio pulsar-black hole binary - a pairing that could allow new tests of Einstein's general relativity and open doors to the study of black holes.

[www.bbc.co.uk]

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