{
  "id": 19687857,
  "title": "A suspected black hole turns out to be a rapidly spinning star",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/a-suspected-black-hole-turns-out-to-be-a-rapidly-spinning-star",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-12T17:30:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-black-hole-rapidly-star.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Sometimes massive stars can mimic the behavior of a black hole and trick astronomers into misinterpreting their nature. Such is the case with a strange pair of stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) cluster NGC 1850. The system was initially thought to contain a star about five times the mass of the sun orbiting a stellar-mass black hole. Now, a new study led by Rhys Seeburger of Liverpool…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}