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Chandrasekhar Placed A Limit On White Dwarfs, But A New Study Finds This Limit Is Not Absolute


The Chandrasekhar limit states that a white dwarf can be no larger than 1.4 solar masses. A new study demonstrates how highly magnetized white dwarfs could overcome that limit, and how such super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs could form.

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