Giant blinking star spotted near galaxy's centre: Astronomers

Astronomers have spotted a giant 'blinking' star, VVV-WIT-08, towards the centre of the Milky Way, the University of Cambridge said. The star might belong to a new class of "blinking giant" binary star system. In the system, a giant star 100 times larger than the Sun is eclipsed once every few decades by an as-yet-unseen orbital companion.