Tag: white dwarf
Hawking radiation, just different? – Not only black holes evaporate slowly
Nearly 50 years after Stephen Hawking postulated the existence of a radiation named after him that is causing black holes to evaporate over eons, three physicists have determined that other…
Micronova: White dwarfs explode in miniature
White dwarfs can also partially explode. Since this type of stellar explosion may be huge by earthly standards, but takes place in miniature by cosmic standards, the scientists call this…