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This video made me think -
What happens to that all kinds of matter that flies around after the black dwarf explodes? Will it stay as iron? Will they gather back and form an iron ball?
I'd imagine that at that point, the expansion of the universe would nullify the tiny amounts of gravity between the particles after the supernova. The only way I'd imagine them staying together is them forming black holes, which this paper in Kurzgesagt's sources list seems to say is unlikely
Of course, I don't know near enough to actually understand much of what this paper is saying, so I could be completely misinterpreting this.
I'm pretty sure the expansion isn't too crazy fast, considering the star itself was stable.
It sounds like a neutron star would be left over, and yes, the cloud of iron would all eventually make it's way either back to the core, or escape.
It'd be pretty in the meanwhile, though.