Supersizing Stars
OCT 02, 2006
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.020484
ScienceNow : Enormous suns have baffled astronomers for years. On the one hand, young stars eventually produce so much radiation that they ought to repel any surrounding building material, and computer models suggested this should limit their mass to about 10 times that of the sun. On the other hand, direct observations routinely turn up bodies more than twice that size. What phenomenon could be creating such stellar giants?
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