And in the center is a white dwarf.

中间是一颗白矮星。

We now call such stars -- white dwarfs.

我们现在称这种恒星为——白矮星。

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白矮星时。

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

像太阳这样较小的恒星会留下白矮星。

So in essence it's cannibalizing its companion hydrogen-rich star.

从本质上说，白矮星在吸食富含氢的恒星同伴。

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

这个物体的质量太大，不可能是白矮星或中子星。

By itself it wouldn't be visible from Earth.

白矮星自身的光我们在地球上是看不到的。

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

以及中子星、白矮星和黑洞最初是如何形成的。

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白矮星的恒星上的热核爆炸。

Burdge added that the white dwarf interrupted the normal development of the first star.

伯德格补充称，那颗白矮星阻断了第一颗恒星的正常发展。

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

“白矮星的引力非常强，以致于会吸取同伴的氢。

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

类似太阳一样终极命运的恒星白矮星使得污染的信号最大化。

Scientists say it lost hydrogen from its outer layers to the smaller white dwarf.

科学家表示，其外层的氢流失到更小的那颗白矮星上。

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

爆炸的发生是因为白矮星的引力吸引了伴星上的物质。

Now, it might be stable, orbiting in this way, for perhaps one or two hundred years.

这颗白矮星可能就这样稳定环绕了一两百年。

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

在我们的星系中已经发现了一万多颗白矮星。

A white dwarf is the hot and dense center of a burned out star.

白矮星是一颗燃烧殆尽的恒星的炽热而密的中心。

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

从某种程度上说，白矮星是一颗虽然已经萎缩，但仍旧不服老的高龄恒星。

One's a white dwarf-the corpse of something that used to be a star in the distant past.

一颗是白矮星，即“远古时期某个恒星的尸体。

That planet eating balloon deflates 9.5 billion years down the line, leaving a white dwarf in its place.

这个吃人气球将在95亿年后彻底收缩，留下一颗白矮星。