Illustration of a binary star system, a star system of two stars orbiting around their common center of mass. At right is a white dwarf star (bright white) with an accretion disk around it. At left center is the main sequence companion. The dotted line re

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Illustration of a binary star system, a star system of two stars orbiting around their common center of mass. At right is a white dwarf star (bright white) with an accretion disk around it. At left center is the main sequence companion. The dotted line represents the roche lobe of the white dwarf and the companion, and the reddish swirl is the mass transfer stream.

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Photo credit: © Spencer Sutton / Alamy / Afripics
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