A White Dwarf Can Tear Apart an Entire Planet #shorts

A white dwarf packs the Sun's full mass into a body the size of Earth — generating gravity 300,000 times stronger than Earth's surface. That force alone is enough to shred planets and asteroids into debris disks.

Astronomers have confirmed this by detecting silicon and iron in white dwarf atmospheres: the pulverized remains of entire worlds raining down onto dead stars. And because white dwarfs have no fusion, they simply cool — for trillions of years. Not one has gone cold yet.

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