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The Black Widow Pulsar (B1957+20) is an eclipsing binary millisecond pulsar that orbits with a brown dwarf companion with a period of 9.2 hours with an eclipse duration of approximately 20 minutes. When it was discovered in 1988 it was the first eclipsing binary pulsar known.

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