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A new study from Caltech's Jim Fuller proposes a model showing that escaping mass from dying stars' surfaces leads to a series of little kicks.
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Who
Jim Fuller, Kareem El-Badry
What
A new study from Caltech's Jim Fuller proposes a model showing that escaping mass from dying stars' surfaces leads to a series of little kicks.
When
Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:36:00 GMT · 5h 7m ago
Where
Pasadena ·
Why
This model is the first to connect randomly oriented mass ejection events to the suspected kicks experienced by white dwarfs.
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The proposed model suggests that dying red giant stars experience about 10,000 small kicks which can cause a net movement, potentially explaining why widely spaced binary stars become less common after one star becomes a white dwarf.
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