An article published in the journal “Astronomy & Astrophysics” reports a new study on the HR 6819 system that offers a more convincing explanation than the one proposed in 2020, when the presence of a black hole was proposed as part of a triple system. A team of researchers led by Abigail Frost of Ku Leuven, Belgium, which includes members of the team that claimed the black hole’s presence and members of the team that already offered an alternative explanation, used new observations obtained with ESO’s VLT that include the use of the VLTI interferometer to try to get a final answer. The conclusion is that HR 6819 is a binary system in which there is no black hole but there is a phenomenon of stellar vampirism in which one of the two stars has torn large quantities of hydrogen from its companion.