However, several well-known white dwarfs are expected to eventually become black dwarfs. One of the most famous is Sirius B, a white dwarf companion to Sirius A, the brightest star in the night sky.

More Astronomers have discovered the "missing link" connecting the death of sunlike stars to the birth of white dwarf stellar remnants, in the form of a "teenage vampire" white dwarf. This vampire ...

A team of astronomers have made a fascinating discovery that forces us to rethink our understanding of how dead stars behave.

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear destined to die in an extraordinarily violent quadruple detonation.

The white dwarf in question, designated Gaia22ayj and located around 8,150 light-years from Earth, is ravenously feeding on stellar plasma from a companion star.