Artist's Impression of Two White Dwarfs in the Process of Merging (IMAGE)

University of Warwick

Artist's Impression of Two White Dwarfs in the Process of Merging

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Artist's impression of two white dwarfs in the process of merging. Depending on the combined mass, the system may explode in a thermonuclear supernova, or coalesce into a single heavy white dwarf, as with WDJ0551+4135.

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University of Warwick/Mark Garlick

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