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What is the force that pulls matter in clouds of space dust together to create stars?
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∙ 14y ago
Gravity causes interstellar clouds of hydrogen to coalesce. At first the clouds tend to be inelastic. What precipitates collapse may be a supernova shock wave or the passing of some massive body, such as a big star or black hole. In one galaxy a few million light years away new stars are forming in the wake of a big black hole orbiting through the plane of the galaxy. It is quite beautiful.
Once the cloud condenses into a sphere, collisions and pressure between hydrogen atoms cause the core to heat up. The newly formed body becomes a protostar, shining with the light and heat of gravitational collapse. This may continue for as long as a million years, though less for larger stars, until the core becomes so hot and dense atomic nuclei fuse together into heavier elements. This is known as a true star, and these all shine by the light of nuclear energy.
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