A highly detailed 3D simulation may have solved the mystery of how the mass of stars is set, finding star formation is a self-regulating process.
, which was founded by astrophysicists from a range of institutions including Northwestern University.
Faucher-Giguère added that this means that the distribution of stellar masses is therefore critical in understanding if planets that orbit stars can potentially sustain life, as well as what distant galaxies look like.causes the formation of dense clumps of material. As the matter in these clumps falls inwards, it collides, generating heat that helps to birth a new star, or 'protostar.
around 4.6 billion years ago. Whether the planets that form this protoplanetary disc can sustain life depends in part on the mass of their parent star.That means that star formation and our understanding of it is key to figuring out if life can exist elsewhere in the universe and where this search should be focused in the future.
Yet modeling IMF has been difficult for researchers. This is in part because scientists have discovered that no matter where they look in the, be it young star clusters or those that are billions of years old, the same ratios of star mass — the IMF — holds.
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