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No. A white dwarf cannot exist above a mass of amount 1.4M sun. Above that limit a stellar remnant will become a much smaller and denser object called a white dwarf. A mass of 3.0 M sun is about the upper limit for a neutron star. Above that it is likely to collapse to forma black hole.

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