How to Use the mass of in a Sentence

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• Such black holes might weigh up to a few hundred times the mass of the sun.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 22 July 2026
• The red dwarf in question has roughly half the mass of our Sun.
  — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 12 Nov. 2025
• This turns out to be more than 100 million times the mass of Earth.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2026
• Then, of course, there is the mass of Redheads who staked out prime spots to watch the concert.
  — Mark Gray, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
• The bridge swayed ever so slightly as the mass of runners began to storm across.
  — Nicholas Thompson, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
• That energy has to come from somewhere, and the source is the mass of the black hole itself.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2026
• There’s no source of heat in the winter cold except what’s emitted by the mass of people.
  — Gawon Bae, CNN Money, 25 Dec. 2025
• Some of the stars in the cluster are true behemoths, 50 times the mass of our sun.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 14 Feb. 2026
• In the wake, many new stars have formed from the shocked gas, about 100 million times the mass of the sun.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 17 Dec. 2025
• The amount of hydrogen within the cloud is about 1 million times the mass of the sun.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 8 Jan. 2026
• So the mass of the black hole in the Milky Way is 4 million times the mass of the sun.
  — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2026
• These are thought to have masses between around 3 and 100 times the mass of the sun.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• It is claimed the rocket can send 27 tonnes (roughly the mass of a small house) toward the moon.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2025
• The combined mass of this system is more than 200 times the mass of our Sun.
  — Chad Hanna, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
• The rest, however, was enveloped by the mass of ice that made up the Alsek Glacier.
  — Denise Chow, NBC news, 16 Sep. 2025
• So if a black hole formed from this heavy seed, then the mass of the black hole would be larger than the mass of the stars at that very early stage.
  — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2026
• So at first blush, the mass of the galaxy appears to be concentrated near its center.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2026
• Police and the mass of protesters battled for inches.
  — Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
• That means no matter the scale of the black hole, a few times the mass of the sun or a billion, jet formation is the same across black holes.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2026
• The most massive of the quartet has one-third the mass of Earth, while the smallest is one-fifth the mass of our planet.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 Dec. 2025
• Eventually, the star will emerge from its cocoon, fully grown with possibly tens of times the mass of our sun.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
• The ones that do are usually between about twenty to 100 times the mass of the Sun.
  — Bill Smith, JSTOR Daily, 4 Sep. 2025
• When such a star was some 10 to 25 times the mass of our sun, that remnant is usually a neutron star.
  — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026
• And all of these candidate dwarf galaxies were found to have a mass between one million and one billion times the mass of the sun.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2026
• These objects are absolute beasts, millions or billions of times the mass of the sun, and are found in the cores of all big galaxies.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2025
• Scientists have long suspected that black holes can explode, but that the length of time this takes increases in step with the mass of any black hole.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Sep. 2025
• Its mass is between 10 and 15 times the mass of our sun; again, typical for a red supergiant.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• However, the situation is different for stars with around 10 times the mass of the sun and more.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 4 Feb. 2026
• To accommodate the mass of passengers, the line snakes through baggage claim and around the terminal.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026
• Calculating the mass of a lattice against its entire outside volume counts all those large empty gaps as part of its volume.
  — New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2026