: The first stars in the Universe are not as massive as previously thought
Fri 31 Jan 2025; The general idea that the Universe's first generation of stars could grow up to 100,000 times the mass of the Sun is now challenged by new computer simulations. A team led by Leiden astrophysicist Piyush Sharda performed the first ever computer simulations to show that magnetic fields limit the mass of these 'metal-free' stars much more than the radiation pressure from their intense luminosity.
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