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Mysterious, record-breaking energy burst connected to dead star and red dwarf


"An M dwarf alone couldn't generate the amount of energy we're seeing. Our data suggests that it is in a binary with another object, which is likely to be a white dwarf, the stellar core of a dying star."

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