"This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be able to live ... This would cause the dead star to draw closer to the black hole, which would cause it to move faster, thus increasing the ...

But astronomers theorize that a low-mass white dwarf, a compact core of a dead star about as large as Earth, could remain intact, even as it sheds some of its matter while approaching the event ...

When supermassive stars reach the end of their lives and explode in a supernova, the remnants form a super-dense object called a ... ASKAP J1839-0756 might be a white dwarf, a smaller star like ...