could you see a black dwarf? why or why not?

Answer 1

A 'black dwarf' is the final stage of stars like our sun that end their lives as a 'white dwarf' star. However, it takes a white dwarf such a long time to become a black dwarf that it's believed the universe isn't yet old enough for any to have formed. A black dwarf would be almost impossible to see unless you were literally right next to it because they would be extremely dark and small, less than 10 miles in diameter.

Answer 2

Well, currently there are no black dwarfs available in the Universe to observe and find out for sure. That's because the time a star needs to completely turn into a black dwarf is larger than the current age of the Universe!

But if such a star existed, it would be like a 'completely' dead star emitting no visible light or any other radiation. Gravity, though, would betray its existence, behaving a bit like a black hole in that respect but at a much small scale.

Answer 3

nope you can't see a black dwarf becoz
Even if black dwarfs did exist, they would be extremely difficult to detect, since by definition they would emit very little radiation (if any), or at most their radiation would be a temperature not much above that of the cosmic microwave background radiation. They may be detectable through their gravitational influence.

Answer 4

Do you mean 'brown dwarf'?

A brown dwarf is a star that has stopped burning nuclear fuel, but still radiates leftover heat - and can be seen through a powerful infrared telescope.

A 'black hole' can be seen indirectly by pinpointing the center of the accretion disk, and the jets of matter being shoved out show the location of the axis of rotation of the black hole.

Answer 5

perhaps

nobody knows what a dwarf looks like because they are not known in the race of the living. Any connection of stars could be the constallation of what you might think is a dwarf.