New theory explains why white dwarf stars can cheat death
Victoria, Canada (SPX) Mar 07, 2024 - In a paper published in Nature, scholars from the Institute for Advanced Study; the University of Victoria, Canada; and the University of Warwick, U.K., have proposed a new theory that explains why a puzzling population of white dwarf stars stopped cooling for ten billion years.
Open any astronomy textbook to the section on white dwarf stars and you'll likely learn that they are "dead stars" that continuously cool down over time. The cooling occurs because... Читать дальше...