Can white dwarfs have iron cores?

samedi 4 avril 2015

Wikipedia only talks about helium and carbon-oxygen white dwarfs... I understand that on a red giant you only get fusion up to oxygen, but I though that maybe if you had a red supergiant which produced iron in its core, and when it exploded as a supernova it threw off enough mass to form a white...



Can white dwarfs have iron cores?





Can white dwarfs have iron cores?

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