Old star clusters could have been the birthplace of supermassive stars

in #stars6 years ago

Hubble Space Telescope image of the young massive star cluster R136 in the 30 Doradus star forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The core of this cluster contains several very massive stars with masses of several 100 times the mass of the Sun, which could have formed by stellar collisions.180621101034_1_540x360.jpg