Based onitsradiationintensity, the teamconservativelyestimates its mass at 500 times that of the sun, says Farrell, now at the UniversityofLeicester in the United Kingdom.
C. and A.D. 500 by brushing away the dark top layer of barren desert to reveal the light, sandy soil underneath, wrote Clive Ruggles, an archaeologist from the University of Leicester in the UnitedKingdom, in an email.