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Rank the least massive to most massive star.

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The least massive to most massive star is black hole, neutron star, and white dwarf.

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The massive stars are formed within dense clouds of dust and gas located in the interstellar medium of a galaxy. Gravity causes these clouds to collapse in on them with small disturbance within a cloud causing denser clumps of matter.

If the surviving core is acts between 1.4 solar masses it contracts to become a tiny, very dense Neutron star.

The masses for both white dwarfs and neutron stars have an upper limit, dense stellar remnants more massive than about 2.5MSun collapse to form black holes.

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Therefore, the least massive to most massive star is block hole, neutron star, and white dwarf.

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