Low-mass stars form through a process known as disk accretion, eating up material that orbits in a disk around them. It turns out that the same mechanism also describes the formation of more massive stars.
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Scaringi, S. Cosmic feast. Nature Phys 13, 210–211 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3964
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