What Is Believed to Prevent Stars from Being Larger Than

question 95

Multiple Choice

What is believed to prevent stars from being larger than a few hundred solar masses?

• A) Stars of larger mass would collapse under their own gravity and become black holes.
• B) No interstellar clouds have masses of more than 100 solar masses.
• C) The cores of larger-mass stars would run through their lives and explode before the stars finish contracting as protostars.
• D) The temperature becomes so high that the excess mass is pushed back into space by radiation from the star.

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