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白矮使得污染的信号最大化。

We now call such stars -- white dwarfs.

我们现在称这种恒为——白矮。

And in the center is a white dwarf.

中间是一颗白矮。

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

以说在你缓慢驶过一颗白矮时。

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

像太阳这样较小的恒会留下白矮。

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白矮上的的、类似于小行的物质。

White dwarfs have cruelly strong gravity.

白矮具有极强的引力。

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

从某种程度上说，白矮是一颗虽然已经萎缩，但仍旧不服老的高龄恒。

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

伯德格补充称，那颗白矮阻断了第一颗恒的正常发展。

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上。

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

这个物体的质量太大，不能是白矮中子。

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

在我们的系中已经发现了一万颗白矮。

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

宇宙会变得越来越暗淡，仅由较小的红矮和白矮照亮（快烧尽的太阳灰渣）。

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白矮的恒上的热核爆炸。

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

以及中子、白矮和黑洞最初是如何形成的。

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

“白矮的引力非常强，以致于会吸取同伴的氢元素。

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

白矮是一颗燃烧殆尽的恒的炽热而密集的中心。

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

然后氢气流向白矮的磁极。

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的引力吸引了伴上的物质。

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

比如说，萨里大学的本-穆迪一直在“制作”白矮。