A question for my fellow DUers interested in the stars...

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3. Maybe this?

"As the dusty gas collapsed, onto the star's growing core, instabilities developed that resulted in channels where radiation blew out through the cloud into interstellar space, while gas continued falling inward through other channels."

"You can see fingers of gas falling in and radiation leaking out between those fingers of gas," Krumholz said. "This shows that you don't need any exotic mechanisms; massive stars can form through accretion processes just like low-mass stars."

The entire article with pictures here: https://www.space.com/6328-massive-stars-form-simple-solution.html