About 8,150 light-years from Earth, a white dwarf star named Gaia22ayj has intrigued astronomers. Its unusual behavior, ...

White dwarfs possess powerful magnetic fields far stronger than any on Earth. For instance, the strength of the magnetic field at Earth's surface is only 30 to 60 millionths of a tesla, ...

Specifically, they wanted to see what would happen when they subjected computer-generated atoms to magnetic fields of about 105 Telsa, which is 10,000 times more powerful than anything that can be ...

Approximately 10-20 percent of white dwarfs exhibit strong magnetic fields, which can reach up to 100,000 tesla. However, on Earth, the strongest magnetic fields that can be generated using ...

The complex magnetic field and photometric variability of the white dwarf star WD 1953-011 18,19 have been suggested 8,9,10,11,12 to result from a dark, magnetically generated spot on the star’s ...

The results presented here also apply to objects other than Ap stars. A subgroup of white dwarfs possess a strong magnetic field of similar geometry and total flux to the Ap stars 21,22.

The future of yellow dwarf stars, like our sun, is determined almost entirely by their mass. The most massive stars, about eight to 12 times heftier than the sun, can explode as supernovae ...

Scientists have discovered two rare white dwarfs—which are among the dimmest stars in the universe—that feature changes in their surface composition caused by magnetic fields. This brings the ...

If the white dwarf star's magnetic fields are weak, the hydrogen from its companion star settles into a nice, regular disk of accretion, steadily feeding onto the white dwarf.

Astronomers have spotted the smallest yet most massive white dwarf star ever seen. ... ZTF J1901+1458 also has an "extreme" magnetic field nearly 1 billion times stronger than the sun, ...

Approximately 10 to 20 percent of these white dwarfs exhibit strong magnetic fields. “The strength of the magnetic field in some white dwarfs can reach up to 100,000 Tesla,” said Stella ...

"The data taken at the W. M. Keck Observatory provided firm evidence that this system had a strong magnetic field and was funneling matter onto the white dwarf," Rodriguez says.