white dwarf
noun
plural white dwarfs
: a small hot whitish star of low intrinsic brightness usually with a mass approximately equal to that of the sun but with a density many times larger
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Their relationship is even more involved than that — the gravitational pull of the white dwarf is actually stretching Wolf 1130A into an egg shape toward it.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Another potential cause is a white dwarf — a dead star as heavy as our sun but condensed to the size of Earth — being ripped apart by a rare intermediate-mass black hole.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
But can life even exist on a planet orbiting a white dwarf?
—Juliette Becker, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2025
Eventually, gravity will pull them back together again, and the celestial dance of the white dwarf collecting energy from its companion star will start over.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2025
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Another potential cause is a white dwarf — a dead star as heavy as our sun but condensed to the size of Earth — being ripped apart by a rare intermediate-mass black hole.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
But can life even exist on a planet orbiting a white dwarf?
—Juliette Becker, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2025
Eventually, gravity will pull them back together again, and the celestial dance of the white dwarf collecting energy from its companion star will start over.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2025
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“White dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white%20dwarf. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.
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