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astro-ph.HE2020★ 114 cited
Maximum Black Hole mass across Cosmic Time
Jorick S. Vink, Erin R. Higgins, Andreas A. C. Sander +1
At the end of its life, a very massive star is expected to collapse into a black hole. The recent detection of an 85 Msun black hole from the gravitational wave event GW 190521 app…
astro-ph.SR2020★ 37 cited
A theoretical investigation of the Humphreys-Davidson limit at high and low metallicity
Erin R. Higgins, Jorick S. Vink
Current massive star evolution grids are not able to simultaneously reproduce the empirical upper luminosity limit of red supergiants, the Humphrey-Davidson (HD) limit at high and…