Newly Discovered White Dwarf So Dense It Might Collapse
June 30th 2021, 3:43 pm
Smoldering cinder packs a mass greater than that of our Sun into a body about the size of our Moon
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Maunakea and Haleakala, Hawai’i Astronomers have discovered the smallest and most massive white dwarf ever seen.
The smoldering cinder, which formed when two less massive white dwarfs merged, is heavy, “packing a mass greater than that of our Sun into a body about the size of our Moon,” says Ilaria Caiazzo, the Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Theoretical Astrophysics at Caltech and lead author of the new study appearing in the July 1 issue of the journal
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