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Gravitational-wave constraints on the pair-instability mass gap and nuclear burning in massive stars
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Abstract Pair instability should prevent the direct formation of black holes above about 50 M ⊙ , creating a ‘pair-instability’ mass gap. Yet gravitational-wave observations have detected black holes in this mass range. These systems can be explained with uncertainties in massive-star evolution, or hierarchical mergers in stellar clusters, which are expected to produce large spins with isotropi...
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- 10.1038/s41550-026-02847-0
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- Nature Research
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- Nature Astronomy More from this journal
- Publication date:
- 2026-05-07
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2397-3366
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2397-3366
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English
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2420069
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pubs:2420069
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W7160516519
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