The Last Light Before Eternal Darkness – White Dwarfs & Black Dwarfs
Everything will end. Even the universe. But in a future so far away that it defies description, there will still be light and therefore a chance for life. It will be around White Dwarfs, the...
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Humans can survive in this universe as long as we have an energy source.Unfortunately, the universe will die. It will happen slowly, over many billions of years,but it will happen. On a universal time scale, stars like our sun will be gone in no time.Luckily, there are places that will exist practically forever from a human perspective:the corpses of dead stars...white dwarfs.They could be humanity's last home right before the death of the universe.What are these strange things and what happens when they finally die?How long stars live varies drastically,depending on how massive they are.For example, really massive stars burn hot and fast, dying violently in supernovae a few million years after birth.But they're the exception.97% of all stars will end t...
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Humans can survive in this universe as long as we have an energy source.Unfortunately, the universe will die. It will happen slowly, over many billions of years,but it will happen. On a universal time scale, stars like our sun will be gone in no time.Luckily, there are places that will exist practically forever from a human perspective:the corpses of dead stars...white dwarfs.They could be humanity's last home right before the death of the universe.What are these strange things and what happens when they finally die?How long stars live varies drastically,depending on how massive they are.For example, really massive stars burn hot and fast, dying violently in supernovae a few million years after birth.But they're the exception.97% of all stars will end t...
