A 3 Gyr White Dwarf with Warm Dust Discovered via the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Project
John H. Debes et al 2019 ApJL 872 L25
A recent citizen-scientist discovery suggests that large-scale tidal disruption events can still occur around white dwarfs 3 billion years after the white dwarf’s formation — much later than was previously thought.