Word: companionâ
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...centimeter would weigh a ton. Their calculations finally made sense of a dim companion of the star Sirius that was first observed in the 1860s and had puzzled astronomers for decades. Though the star was apparently small, it exerted an inexplicably great gravitational pull on Sirius. The dense little companion???like others that have been observed since?was a white dwarf. But would bigger stars, with greater gravity, shrink into still smaller, even more dense bundles...
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