The heaviest black holes below the pair-instability limit

Funder	Science and Technology Facilities Council
Recipient Organization	Queen's University of Belfast
Country	United Kingdom
Start Date	Sep 30, 2021
End Date	Mar 31, 2025
Duration	1,278 days
Number of Grantees	2
Roles	Student; Supervisor
Data Source	UKRI Gateway to Research
Grant ID	`2645351`

Grant Description

The aim of the project is to investigate very massive stars, especially their final stages, with an ultimate objective of determining the conditions for black hole formations in these extreme stars.

Very massive stars are defined as having a mass larger than 50 solar masses, as these stars will behave differently to other massive stars typically given as greater than 8 solar masses.

However, this boundary is not clearly defined and there are different answers as to where exactly the boundary to very massive stars exist.