A bizarre ultra-massive white dwarf may have an even stranger explanation than astronomers could’ve predicted, with a new study suggesting the super-ancient anomaly was once two stars that joined. White dwarfs are created when a relatively low-mass star burns through its fuel, finally collapsing in on itself into an incredibly dense, furiously hot remnant. That’s the theory, anyway, but sometimes …
A bizarre ultra-massive white dwarf may have an even stranger explanation than astronomers could’ve predicted, with a new study suggesting the super-ancient anomaly was once two stars that joined. White dwarfs are created when a relatively low-mass star burns through its fuel, finally collapsing in on itself into an incredibly dense, furiously hot remnant. That’s the theory, anyway, but sometimes …
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