Topic: Most Massive Star Discovered—Shatters Record

[Simon]

One of Sam's other posts led me to this:

A newfound star has shattered the record as the most massive stellar monster ever seen, astronomers announced today.

Weighing in at a whopping 265 times the mass of our sun, the behemoth may have actually slimmed down since birth, when it likely tipped the scales at 320 times the sun's mass.

The discovery could rewrite the laws of stellar physics, since it's long been thought that stars beyond a certain mass would be too unstable to survive.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/07/100721-science-space-most-massive-star-ever-discovered-record/

[Clive]

A big Sam type hmmmmmm from me because the cluster has previous and this seems even more bonkers.   

[sam]

stars that big could form quark stars... stars even more dense than neutron stars (which are essentially neutrons as tightly packed as possible... very very dense)