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Study Explains How Accreting ‘Vampire’ White Dwarfs Can Become Neutron Stars

Study Explains How Accreting ‘Vampire’ White Dwarfs Can Become Neutron Stars

Researchers detail how some white dwarfs that siphon matter from companion stars can, under finely tuned conditions, collapse into neutron stars. The work clarifies pathways to creating some of the universe’s most extreme stellar remnants.

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The universe's most extreme dead stars can form from vampire white dwarfs - and scientists finally know how