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Article: Earliest stars in Universe may have been twins
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- July 10, 2009
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Washington, July. 10 -- Astrophysicists, using extremely detailed computer simulations, have determined that the earliest stars in the universe formed not only as individuals, but sometimes also as twins.
The robust simulations of the early universe were created by astrophysicists Matthew Turk and Tom Abel of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, and Brian O'Shea of Michigan State University.
"We used to think that these stars formed by themselves, but now we see from our computer simulations that sometimes they have siblings," said Turk.
"These stars provide the seeds of next generation star formation, so by understanding them we can better understand how other stars ...