Massive stars play a major role in the evolution of their host galaxies and serve as important
probes of the distant Universe. It has been established that the majority of massive stars …

Massive stars have strong stellar winds that direct their evolution through the upper
Hertzsprung–Russell diagram and determine the black hole mass function. Furthermore …

We identify a low-metallicity () Ly-emitting galaxy at with evidence of a strong Balmer jump,
arising from nebular continuum. While Balmer jumps are sometimes observed in low-redshift …

Stellar-mass black holes are the final remnants of stars born with more than 15 solar
masses. Billions are expected to reside in the Local Group, yet only a few are known, mostly …

Context. The star cluster R136 inside the Large Magellanic Cloud hosts a rich population of
massive stars, including the most massive stars known. The strong stellar winds of these …

We explore a newly proposed channel to create binary black holes of stellar origin. This
scenario applies to massive, tight binaries where mixing induced by rotation and tides …

We substantially update the capabilities of the open source software package Modules for
Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA), and its one-dimensional stellar evolution …

The explosion of ultra-stripped stars in close binaries can lead to ejecta masses< 0.1 M⊙
and may explain some of the recent discoveries of weak and fast optical transients. In Tauris …

Understanding massive stars is essential for a variety of branches of astronomy including
galaxy and star cluster evolution, nucleosynthesis and supernovae, pulsars, and black …

The 30 Doradus star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud is a nearby analog of
large star-formation events in the distant universe. We determined the recent formation …