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Features or characteristics of dead stars

Write a short note on the features or characteristics of dead stars?

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Dead stars are generally cold balls of material in the empty space. A teaspoonful of the white dwarf matter would weigh as much as the Elephant on Earth, as white dwarfs are really the compressed remains of a star similar to our sun, shrunk down to the size of the Manhattan.   

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