Pulsar surveys with the SKA will discover tens of thousands of pulsars, amongst which we expect to find a pulsar in orbit around a stellar - mass black hole and
pulsars in close orbit around the super-massive black hole at the Galactic Centre.
Not exact matches
Planets
orbiting more compact objects, such as white dwarfs,
pulsars and black holes, might have even shorter years since they can get
closer in.
TRIPLE THREAT A
pulsar (left) is
orbited by two white dwarfs — one
close in, one farther away —
in this illustration of the system PSR J0337 +1715.