Scientists have discovered an incredibly rare neutron star, resulting from the collision of two white dwarfs. White dwarfs - the remains of stars of dense matter, which may be due to the increased mass to be subjected to the effect of gravitational self-stress and in this case turn into a neutron star or black hole. However, the star object J005311 - a bright infrared star located inside the gas cloud that does not emit visible light, provided new information about white dwarfs - it turned out that these space objects can merge together.

"First of all, these results show that white dwarf fusions happen ... Secondly, it shows that some of these mergers do not end with an explosion," says study co-author Goetz Grafener, an astronomer at Bonn University.

It was assumed that the star, formed as a result of the merger of white dwarfs, was to immediately tear apart after its creation due to a sharp increase in density, but it received enough heat to ensure the ignition of carbon without an explosion. Thus, J005311 burns and generates enough thermal pressure to prevent collapse.

Scientists believe that the star should explode soon and after that it will create a supernova.

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