Boris Gänsicke

“Yet if we take the median across a representative population of white dwarfs, we found that the average white dwarf really is white.”

Boris Gänsicke · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-18

Boris Gänsicke said that taking the median across a representative population shows the average white dwarf really is white.

“One in thirty might not sound like a huge fraction, but across the entire population of white dwarfs in the universe, that is still a lot of oddly colored stars out there,”

Boris Gänsicke · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-18

Boris Gänsicke said that one in thirty white dwarfs having vibrant coloring still amounts to many oddly colored stars across the universe.