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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10707416

They are among the true monsters of space - colossal stars whose size and brightness go well beyond what many scientists thought was even possible.

One of the objects, known simply as R136a1, is the most massive ever found.

>> No.1451688

Thank you for bringing this to my attention good sir. You shall be rewarded

>> No.1451695

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/03/antimatter-supernova-the-biggest-bomb-in-the-cosmos.htm
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A star recently went supernova because the gamma rays generated in its core became energetic enough that they started spontaneously creating matter-antimatter pairs. This causes a significant "lag" in the outward pressure of the star compared to gamma rays normally propagating out, which caused the star to collapse, creating even more energetic gamma rays producing even more antimatter-matter pairs etc until it explodes, accelerating almost ALL of the matter of the star in excess of the escape velocity of the system. No remaining core to collapse into a neutron star or black hole, just fukkin BOOM and the star was no more.

>> No.1451700

>>1451695
This is awesome.

>> No.1451708

>>1451695
what are the consequences of this?

>> No.1451711

>>1451708
THE CONSEQUENCES WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!

>> No.1451721

>>1451684
...and the American Government has been training an elite team of star destroyers in top secrecy, who will risk EVERYTHING in order to conform to modern physics. Starring Will Smith and Danny DeVito as... STARKILLERS. Coming to a cinema near you on August 24th.

>> No.1451726

>and also extremely wide - perhaps 30 times the radius of our Sun in the case of R136a1.
...
>VY Canis Majoris (VY CMa) is a red hypergiant star located in the constellation Canis Major. At between 1800 and 2100 solar radii...

>> No.1451732

>>1451708

to us, not much

but for probably a hundred light year radius around there, the consequences will never be the same

>> No.1451738

>>1451732
>>1451711

Come on /sci/ do we really have to lower ourselves? I thought we were a God tier bored like /fa/....

>> No.1451747

>>1451726

Mass = Radius? wat

>> No.1451755

>>1451747
?
>Solar radius is a unit of distance used to express the size of stars in astronomy equal to the current radius of the Sun:

Yeah this star is way more massive but its "extreme width" seems small as hell compared to VY Canis Majoris.