Sentence examples for more massive star from inspiring English sources

An even more massive star continues to collapse and becomes a black hole.

If the partners drift close enough, the gravitational pull of the more massive star will drag material off its neighbor.

"The shock waves generated by this encounter ripped apart the red giant," says lead researcher Pierre Maxted of Keele University, also in the U.K. What's left is a rather odd combination of a Jupiter-sized planet closely orbiting a terrestrial-sized but more massive star.

Procyon B, which orbits the more massive star every 41 years, is of magnitude 10.7.

The paradox can be solved by mass transfer: when the more massive star became a subgiant, it filled its Roche lobe, and most of the mass was transferred to the other star, which is still in the main sequence.

More massive stars must display more spectacular effects because the rate of conversion of mass into energy is higher.

This phenomenon is thought to be the final fate of the more massive stars (see black hole).

Consequently, radiation pressure may be neglected for the Sun, but it cannot be ignored for hotter, more massive stars.

But more massive stars can go on to ignite helium to produce carbon and oxygen and so forth.

More massive stars burn hotter and faster and produce heavy elements more copiously than less massive ones.

Fortunately, unlike more massive stars that have already reached this state, the Sun will require billions of years to reach this state.