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never heard of these recurrent novae, got to look it up, sounds counterintuitive
Without reading the article, I imagine it’s a binary system where a white dwarf is siphoning gases from a star. When it reaches critical mass, it goes thermonuclear.
You are exactly right - how could this have possibly been a guess, lol.
I saw a video on this and this is pretty much how I remember it explained.