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Visualization of the unstable accretion disk around a forming massive star. Credit: Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Tübingen University

“How do massive stars form?” is one of the fundamental questions in modern astrophysics, because these massive stars govern the energy budget of their host galaxies. Using numerical simulations, Professor Wilhelm Kley et al from Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Tübingen, with Dr. Vorobyov from Institute for Astrophysics, University of Vienna revealed new components of the formation of massive stars, already known from the formation process of low-mass and primordial stars.

The birth of massive stars is still a mystery to us, because these stars are embedded in an extremely dense medium of gas and dust...