White dwarfs—the ultimate destiny of stars like the sun—maximize the pollution signal.

类似太阳一样终命运恒使得污染信号最大化。

We now call such stars -- white dwarfs.

我们现在称这种恒为——。

And in the center is a white dwarf.

中间是一颗。

Or, it seems, when you're cruising past a white dwarf star.

或者可以说在你缓慢驶过一颗时。

Smaller stars like the sun leave behind what are called white dwarves.

像太阳这样较小恒会留下。

It contains two gravitationally linked stars – a white dwarf and a red giant.

它包含两颗引力相互作用恒——一颗和一颗红巨。

Now researchers have identified rocky, asteroidlike material raining down on two white dwarfs.

如今，研究人员已经确定了如下雨般落在两颗上多岩石、类似于小行物质。

White dwarfs have cruelly strong gravity.

具有引力。

A white dwarf is the stellar equivalent of a shrunken but feisty old-age pensioner.

从某种程度上说，是一颗虽然已经萎缩，但仍旧不服老高龄恒。

The object was too massive to be a white dwarf or a neutron star.

这个物体质量太大，不可能是或中子。

NASA describes a white dwarf as the remains of an Earth-sized star that died.

美国国家航空航天局将描述为一颗地球大小恒死亡后残骸。

Over 10,000 white dwarfs have now been found in our galaxy.

在我们系中已经发现了一万多颗。

The universe becomes dimmer and dimmer, illuminated only by smaller red and white dwarfs.

宇宙会变得越来越暗淡，仅由较小红和照亮（快烧尽太阳灰渣）。

The event involves thermonuclear explosions that take place on a star called a white dwarf.

该事件涉及发生在一颗名为恒上热核爆炸。

And how neutron stars, white dwarfs and black holes are created in the first place.

以及中子、和黑洞最初是如何形成。

In a nova, the white dwarf remains active after the event.

在新中，在事件发生后仍然活跃。

The white dwarf's gravity is so powerful it can suck hydrogen off of that companion.

“引力非常，以致于会吸取同伴氢元素。

The hydrogen then flows toward the white dwarf's magnetic poles.

然后氢气流向磁。

The explosions happen because the white dwarf's gravity has pulled material from a companion star.

爆炸发生是因为引力吸引了伴上物质。

Ben Murdin of the University of Surrey, for example, has been making white dwarfs.

比如说，萨里大学本-穆迪一直在“制作”。