Nearly half of all stars are born in binary systems, with the most massive ones dying the fastest. It’s not pretty for the “second” star.
To survive in this Universe, you must avoid pulsars.
An illustrated view of a black widow pulsar and its stellar companion. The pulsar’s gamma-ray emissions (magenta) strongly heat the facing side of the star (orange). The pulsar is gradually evaporating its partner. (Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Cruz deWilde)
Formed when massive stars die in a core-collapse supernova, pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars.