Simulated Explosion of a White Dwarf.

Posted by Anita in Everything Else on March 23, 2007 at 1:15 am


White Dwarf Exploding

For years scientists have hypothesized that certain type of supernovae (Ia), were caused by explosions of white dwarf stars. However, until now there has been no way to verify this through observations or computer simulations. Don Lamb and his team from the University of Chicago were able to simulate the explosion in 3D, and found that the white dwarf could completely explode in just 3 seconds. Link [NewScientist]


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3 comments to "Simulated Explosion of a White Dwarf."

  1. Alex
    March 23rd, 2007 at 1:41 am

    When I glanced at the title, I thought they were blowing up one of the dwarfs from Snow White!

  2. Ali
    March 26th, 2007 at 12:31 pm

    @ Alex

    XD Hahahahahaha!! And then there were just six dwarves.

  3. Philip
    July 24th, 2007 at 9:44 pm

    lol a white dwarf is a class of star you morons, the result of a planetary nebula after a star's fuel(fusion of hydrogen into helium and then of helium into carbon till iron) depletes, and due to the gravitational pull of itself(higher layers) results on an explosion creating a white dwarf.


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