Magellanic Bridge

  • Magellanic Bridge is a stream of gas and stars linking two of the Milky Way’s nearest satellite dwarf galaxies: Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC).
  • It formed ~200 million years ago due to tidal forces during an encounter between the LMC and SMC.
  • The Magellanic Bridge helps astronomers examine how interaction between galaxies influences stellar formation and evolution.
  • X-ray binaries are binary stars that emit X-rays, produced by matter falling from a donor star (usually a main-sequence star) to an accretor (neutron star or black hole).
  • A binary star is a system of two gravitationally bound stars orbiting a common centre ....
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