As the fuel in a super massive sized star finishes burning up it tends to collapse on itself becoming a black hole. This is what scientists thought happened to all stars that were a certain large size and above. However now new information has come to light about the unusual death of some ancient stars.

These huge primordial stars were 55,000 to 56,000 times the mass of our sun, but did not become black holes when they burnt out. The stars which are counted as the first generation of the universe’s celestial bodies burned out completely instead of turning into black holes.

They sent out chemical elements other than hydrogen and helium into space paving the way for the later generations of stars,  new solar systems and whole galaxies to be formed. Since the beginning of the universe is a mystery that human beings have long pondered and wanted to solve, finding out more about these stars will help us come step step closer to solving the mystery.

Astrophysicists from three different universities have been astounded by the finding that there was a narrow window where super massive stars could explode completely instead of becoming a super massive black hole. As no one has ever found this mechanism before it has led to a great deal of excitement and curiosity over this scientific study.