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furtherdimensions t1_jdtfuhk wrote

Reply to comment by A_Garbage_Truck in eli5 - Why does a sun grow larger at the end of its life? by ghost_n_the_shell

>what's left behind is the now dead core of the star a white dwarf which slowly bleed out whatever energy remains thru radiance.

Unless of course the white dwarf's density is over the Chandrasekhar limit in which case what happens next is not slow at all but extremely fast and breathtakingly violent.

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A_Garbage_Truck t1_jdtg5z9 wrote

Fair, i was looking atthis from the point of a star similar ot our sun as this is what i beleive the OP was alluding to.

you basically described the other outcome where gravity "wins".

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