Sentences with phrase «gravity of the white dwarf star»
Artist's impression of a rocky and water - rich asteroid being torn apart by the strong gravity of the white dwarf star.
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Artist impression of a rocky and water - rich asteroid being torn apart by the strong gravity of the white dwarf star GD 61.
Not exact matches
The extremely strong gravity of a massive neutron star in orbit with a companion white dwarf star puts competing theories of gravity to a test more stringent than any available before
A 21 - year study of a pair of ancient stars — one a pulsar and the other a white dwarf — helps astronomers understand how gravity works across the cosmos.
A nova can occur if the strong gravity of a white dwarf pulls material from its orbiting companion star.
But some scientists have suggested the fast - moving stars near the cluster centres could instead result from the gravity of many dim, dead stars such as white dwarfs or neutron stars.
In some alternate theories of gravity that could take over if general relativity turns out to be wrong, the neutron star could have gravitational effects going on inside it that the relatively willowy white dwarf would not.
Burning stars balance the inward push of gravity with the outward push from fusion, but in a white dwarf, electrons must squeeze tightly together to create that outward - pressing force.