A massive white-dwarf merger product before final collapse

Nature, Published online: 20 May 2019; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1216-1

The merger of two white dwarfs created a massive, hot, luminous, rotating and magnetized star with a lifetime of several thousand years, which will collapse into a type Ic supernova.

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