In stars several times the mass of the Sun, they go
well beyond fusing Helium to Carbon.
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O stars have the highest initial masses of all and will fuse elements
all the way to Iron at their cores! They become
HUGE SUPERGIANTS.
High mass B and all O stars can not become white dwarfs. Their
central cores are too massive. As we will soon see, an entirely different fate awaits them.