When it comes to deep space phenomena, the gigantic plasma waves breaking around star system MACHO 80.7443.1718 – so named for the MACHO Project that first spotted it in the 1990s – really do take some beating.
roll across the larger star – which is some 35 times the mass of our own Sun – as the smaller star swings closer to it, during the celestial dance that the two stars are engaged in.And it's difficult to comprehend the size of these waves, which reach about a fifth of the radius of the larger star: the waves can reach some 4.3 million kilometers high, taller than threeIt's the sort of event that would be the centerpiece of a science fiction movie.
astrophysicist Morgan MacLeod, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in the US."These are really big waves." MacLeod and his colleague Abraham Loeb were drawn to MACHO 80.7443.1718 because of the large fluctuations in its brightness: they observed swings of up to 20 percent rather than the usual 0.1 percent.was then generated to try and get a better understanding of why this was happening. The gargantuan tidal waves that the model produced help explain the substantial swings in brightness coming from the star system.
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