Of these, perhaps the most prominent is the theory of competitive accretion, which suggests that massive protostars are "seeded" by low-mass protostars which compete with other protostars to draw in matter from the entire parent molecular cloud, instead of simply from a small local region.
Destas, quizais a máis salientable é a teoría da acreción competitiva, que suxire que as protoestrelas masivas son "sementadas" por protoestrelas de baixa masa que compiten con outras protoestrelas para arrastrar materia da nube molecular parental completa, en vez de simplemente dunha pequena rexión local desta.