What Prevents Stars Greater Than About 100 Times the Sun's

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Multiple Choice

What prevents stars greater than about 100 times the Sun's mass from existing?

• A)The rate of thermal expansion would overcome gravitational attraction leading to explosion.
• B)The gravitational attraction would overcome the rate of thermal expansion leading to a black hole.
• C)Fusion cannot take place at these higher mass levels.
• D)The gaseous material of the universe is too widely dispersed to allow for the formation of stars of this mass.

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