nuclear fusion

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BH* objects are not true stars because they lack nuclear fusion in their centers.

From Science Daily

A US science institute is on the verge of achieving a longstanding goal in nuclear fusion research.

From BBC

It also underlies, although invisibly, the process that supplies the energy needed for life: It accounts for the initial step in the nuclear fusion reaction that powers the sun.

From Washington Post

This machine is the world’s largest Z-pinch, a plasma physics device originally designed to study nuclear fusion—basically a soup-can-sized wire cage sitting on top of a warehouse-sized series of capacitor banks.

From Scientific American

The first, known as iron-core collapse, occurs when a heavy star's core has become saturated with iron created through the nuclear fusion of lighter elements.

From Salon