SMRTR Science & EngineeringNov 6, 2025Science Daily

Colossal stars forged the Universe’s earliest clusters

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Researchers discovered that extremely massive stars weighing 1,000-10,000 times our Sun's mass forged the universe's oldest star clusters through powerful stellar winds that chemically enriched surrounding gas. These colossal, short-lived stars naturally explain the mysterious chemical compositions found in ancient globular clusters and may have created the first intermediate-mass black holes.

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