last place I d guess would be in hellish accretion disks around supermassive black holes.
then they d grow huge.
I can t remember the last time I read a journal paper and muttered “holy crap” under my breath so many times.
Stars usually form in vast clouds of gas and dust. Parts of the cloud collapse under their own gravity, and these knots then condense to form stars. Massive stars burn through their nuclear fuel rapidly and explode as supernovae, but stars like the Sun live much longer. The gas cloud either dissipates or that kind of star leaves it over time, going on to live a stable life for billions of years in the cold vacuum of space.