This is a very neat result: using ALMA, a team surveyed 39 massive cosmic clouds, or "star nurseries”… and found in the order of ~stellar seeds… and 99% of them lacked the mass to give birth to massive stars. It seems that core density might be more critical than mass for high-mass star formation.

https://almaobservatory.org/en/press-releases/alma-unlocks-secrets-of-the-universe-revealing-the-hidden-seeds-of-giant-stars/

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