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No. White dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes are three different things. With the exception of some black holes, all are remnants of the cores of dead stars at various degrees of collapse.

A white dwarf is the remains of a low to medium mass star consisting of atomic nuclei surrounded by electrons from electron shells that were crushed by gravity. White dwarfs can be up to about two times the mass of the sun and are a few thousand miles across, some about the same size as Earth.

A neutron star is a remnant of a massive star that has collapsed even further. In a neutron star the atoms have been crushed so that neutrons are most of what remains. Neutron stars range from 2 to 3 times the mass of the sun and are roughly 12 to 25 miles across.

A black hole is the remains of a very massive star that has completely collapsed into, at least theoretically, an infinitely dense point. Around the black hole is an area where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape, not even light. Stellar mas black holes range from 3 to 30 times the mass of the sun. There are also supermassive black holes, which are millions to billions times the mass of the sun. It is not known how supermassive black holes form.

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No, a white dwarf and a supernova are different. A supernova is an explosion in space resulting either from the death of a massive star or the reignition of fusion in a white dwarf that has gained mass.
A white dwarf is the remnant of a low to medium mass star that has stopped nuclear fusion.
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White dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes all form from the collapsed cores of dead stars. What is left behind depends on the mass of the star.

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