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It's a power law. Increased mass more than proportionally decreases the lifetime of a star. (A star with 100 X the mass of our sun would last about a million ye
by kabdib 4y ago
It's a power law. Increased mass more than proportionally decreases the lifetime of a star. (A star with 100 X the mass of our sun would last about a million years).
- ianai 4y agoThat sort of sounds like a "sorting" process or something like survivor bias. The conditions were more likely to produce pockets of material dense and large enough to produce the larger, shorter living stars the earlier back in the universe. i.e. as Time progresses forward the stars which remain are those with more burn time and thus less mass. Otherwise would require some forces to exist which pull mass back together to counter the overall expansion of the universe.