Stars up to 120 times as massive as the Sun are key drivers of galaxy evolution: they pump energy into their surroundings and enrich their host galaxies with heavy elements. Yet we don’t understand how these behemoths form from their natal clouds of gas and dust. New images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array reveal that whirling magnetic fields help funnel material inward on large scales, but closer to where a baby star is growing the crushing force of gravity is king. To learn more, see our AAS Nova highlight and the corresponding research article in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. The accompanying illustration depicts the gaseous disk and envelope surrounding a massive protostar. [National Astronomical Observatory of Japan]