Astronomers Crack The Code Of Mysterious Monster Stars Lee
Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The team wrote
in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
that the group of stars may have formed while smaller stars were
in a tight binary system. In 2010, scientists discovered these
supermassive stars, one of which is more than 300 times the mass
of the Sun. These objects have never been found anywhere else in
the universe, so far. The galaxy the stars reside in sits
160,000 light years away from Earth, and is the third nearest
satellite of the Milky Way galaxy. LMC has many star forming
regions, with the most active being the 1,000 light-year
diameter “Tarantula Nebula,” where the four supermassive stars
can be found. Until astronomers found the monster stars, they
believed the stars with the largest mass were about 150 times
the mass of the Sun. “Not only the upper mass limit but the
whole mass ingredient of any newborn assembly of stars appears
identical irrespective of the s