What will happen if I eat a spoon of White Dwarf?

"Everything about it would be bad," says Mark Hammergren, an astronomer at Adler Planetarium in Chicago, beginning with your attempt to scoop it up. Despite the fact that white dwarfs are fairly common throughout the universe, the nearest is 8.6 light-years away. read more

1. You could not go to White Dwarf and take a bit of its matter 2. There is no way you could keep it that dense without it being in gravitational field of the White Dwarf, it would explode. 3. On Earth we do not have material that would be capable of containing it. Say we have found the way around all these. read more

Despite the fact that white dwarfs are fairly common throughout the universe, the nearest is 8.6 light-years away. Let's assume, though, that you've spent 8.6 years in your light-speed car and that the radiation and heat emanating from the star didn't kill you on your approach. read more

The current estimate of the mean temperature of the universe is about 2.7 degrees kelvin . As the universe is only 13.7 billion years old, there has not been enough time for a white dwarf to become a black dwarf. A white dwarf star will have to have a temperature of ZERO kelvin in order for it to become a true black dwarf. read more