“James Webb Telescope Discovers Evidence of “Space Monster” Stars”

SPACE — James Webb has found evidence of “space monster” stars, the largest stars in the universe. The James Webb Webb Telescope captured this photo of a star that burns brighter than a million suns.

The astronomers behind the discovery say that this monster star is brighter than millions of Suns in the early universe. They also say that the largest ‘sky monster’ has a mass 300 times that of our sun.

Reported from BGR, the largest star found is believed to have a mass of 5,000 to 10,000 Suns. The existence of this massive star has been theorized for several years. A team of European researchers theorized the existence of this still star in 2018, but there was no proof yet.

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Astronomers have spent decades looking at the diversity of stars throughout the universe, especially stars that are often found sandwiched in globular clusters.

Many of these clusters are old and can contain millions of stars despite their small volume. Some of these clusters are home to the largest stars in the universe and can help answer questions about our early universe.

That’s because these old stars are often composed of elements that require absurd amounts of heat to produce. These elements include aluminum, which requires temperatures of up to 70 million degrees Celsius to manufacture.

However, these stars are often only 15 to 20 million degrees Celsius. This incongruous comparison of composition and temperature baffles astronomers.

Scientists then try to find a logical explanation of these stars. A possible explanation behind these old stars is collisions within dense globular clusters.

These collisions are seen throughout our universe. Collisions make galaxies larger and denser with mass, and collisions between black holes also amplify them.

If the stars in these globular clusters collide, the collisions can cause these materials to leak into one another. This allows the stars to have high amounts of elements even when the temperatures are not what scientists believe is necessary to produce them. Studies on this discovery have been published in Astronomy and Astrophysics.