A Pair of White Dwarfs Locked in a Six-Minute Orbit Might One Day Be Observed By Gravitational Waves

Artistic impression of the double white dwarf binary eRASSU J0608. Credit: Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics

Future gravitational wave observatories will be able to see the gravitational waves of close-orbiting binary stars. A newly studied white dwarf system could be one of the first systems we observe.

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