April 24, 2024

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‘Extreme’ white dwarf sets cosmic records for small size, huge mass

NBC News

By Reuters

July 1, 2021In their death throes, roughly 97 percent of all stars become a smoldering stellar zombie called a white dwarf, one of the densest objects in the cosmos. A newly discovered white dwarf is being hailed as the most “extreme” one of these on record, cramming a frightful amount of mass into a surprisingly small package.

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