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Old 19-08-2010, 10:25 AM
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40 solar mass star....this all depends on how much mass it loses in its Wolf Rayet stage. If that star lost enough mass it could conceivably become small enough to be a neutron star/magnetar progenitor before it went supernova. The mass loss would determine just how much mass the core finally had before it went bang.
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