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Universe Today Podcast
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How Big Could These Pop Three Stars Be?
At the beginning of the universe, there were probably these large blobs of relatively cold gas. And as a shockwave from say a nearby supernova passed through the region, this gas would collapse down almost instantly. According to new simulations, some of these clusters of gas could be 100,000 times the mass of the sun. Can you imagine what kind of star that would be? It must have lived a very short life and detonated as a supernova.
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