We have identified a candidate $\sim 1-2 \times 10^5$ year old luminous white dwarf in NGC 1818, a young star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This discovery strongly constrains the boundary mass $M_c$ at which stars stop forming neutron stars and start forming white dwarfs, to $M_c \gtsim 7.6 \msun$.
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