white dwarf

While mapping radio waves in the Universe, a team discovered something unusual that releases a giant burst of energy 3x an hour—and it's unlike anything astronomers have seen before. They think it might be a neutron star or a white…

A team of astronomers led by the University of Warwick has discovered a white dwarf star spinning so quickly, that it breaks previous records. The star is also the second magnetic propeller found. A white dwarf is what remains once a…