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  • High-mass companions can widen common-envelope outcomes in giant stars

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    What the study found The study found that higher companion mass ratios can produce wider orbits after a common-envelope event, which is an episode where two stars share a single outer envelope. Even so, the widest separation predicted here was still only about 50 solar radii, smaller than the observed range. Why the authors say…