From collisions to stellar cannibalism—the surprising diversity of exploding white dwarfs
Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after ...
White dwarf stars may host more habitable exoplanets than expected
Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...
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Intrepid white dwarf has a close encounter with a massive black hole
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually increasing in frequency that seem to be coming ...
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Intrepid white dwarf has a close encounter with a massive black hole
The observations made using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton orbiting X-ray telescope appear to show a white dwarf nearing the point of no return - called the event horizon - as it orbits ...