Studying the First Stars with Gravitational Waves
What can aLIGO tell us about the earliest stars? Read today’s astrobite to find out!
Observational Evidence for the First Generation of Stars
Have we found evidence for the first generation of stars? This paper details observations made of CR7, one of the brightest observed high redshift galaxies
The First Star Clusters
The first stars may have formed in clusters, rather than in isolation as previously thought. What would these clusters look like?
A New Way to Die: What Happens to Supermassive Stars?
Supermassive black holes are everywhere in our Universe, but we don’t know where they came from. Supermassive stars could have given birth to these massive objects. However, that is not all these fifty to one hundred solar mass stars could be responsible for…
Spinning the First Stars
In a recent paper, Stacy et al. reveal the detailed internal structure of the seeds of four of the first stars, and demonstrate for the first time that they are rapidly spinning throughout. Their results bring us one step closer to a coherent story of the lives and deaths of Population III stars.
How to Make “A Star that Should Not Exist”
The low-mass primitive halo star, SDSS J102915+172927, puzzled astronomers because of it’s extremely low metal content. This article aims to answer under what physical conditions can a star like this form.