Starts With A Bang podcast #130 – the initial mass function of stars
Give the Universe a massive enough cold cloud of gas, and it'll give you a spectrum of stars of all different masses.
But that spectrum isn't universal, and we finally understand why.
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Contracting gas clouds don't just make a single star, but a spectrum, with all different masses. Early on, that spectrum differed. But why?
