How dying stars could reignite with help from enigmatic class of black hole

A white dwarf is one of the last stages of life for stars of a certain size, and it's all downhill from there – with no new source of energy, the object will gradually fade away into obscurity. But supercomputer simulations run by astronomers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) suggest that these dying stars could be reignited by a close encounter with an enigmatic class of black hole.

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Category: Space

Tags:

• Astronomy
• Black hole
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Simulations
• Stars
• White dwarf

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