Stunned to discover the most exotic new white dwarf in the universe

Scientists discovered an extremely strange white dwarf, an extremely low-mass white dwarf called KIC 8145411, which has a companion, but that star is far enough that it cannot be stolen. amount of this white dwarf.

Besides, the rate of detecting such a pair of stars with scientists was quite rare, but it may be much more common than previously thought.

Kento Masuda, the lead author of the new article, described the study to Space.com in an e-mail.

White dwarf KIC 8145411 makes up about one fifth of our solar mass.

Masuda and colleagues used data collected by NASA's famous planet-hunting tool, the Kepler space telescope.

Observations show that the white dwarf KIC 8145411 accounts for about one-fifth of our Sun's mass, making it among the extremely low mass white dwarfs.

Surprisingly, its companion star orbits too far away from the white dwarf star to interact or steal mass from the star.

The scientists conclude, something else is responsible for the low mass of KIC 8145411 , as well as controlling the distance too far between the companion orbiting it.

Masuda said he and his colleagues plan to continue hunting small white dwarfs in similar binary star systems to learn more about their systems.

"I hope they will solve more mysteries about the KIC 8145411 system and will have a better understanding of white dwarfs in binary stars," Masuda said.