MURKY ORIGINS. “However, because collapsing blue supergiants likely formed as a result of a prior binary interaction, few binary scenarios predict them to be the progenitors of BH mergers or XRBs, though they could plausibly be progenitors of ultra-long gamma-ray bursts.” (BH = black hole; XRBs = X-ray binaries).
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