Huge gravity of these dense stars, which have burned all their own fuel, rips apart smaller planetary bodies
It’s the end of the world, not quite as we know it.
Scientists from the University of Warwick and other universities have studied the impact white dwarfs – end-of-state stars that have burned all their fuel – have on planetary systems such as our own solar system.
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