14 DAY TRIAL // University of Toronto PhD student Mubdi Rahman said in a recent statement that he and his team were recently able to image a special cluster, one that is filled to the brink with young supermassive stars.
Hundreds of these objects are at least a dozen times heavier than our own Sun, and they are all contributing to carving out a hollow in surrounding gas and dust clouds. The hole has a diameter of about 100 light-years.
“By studying these supermassive stars and the shell surrounding them, we hope to learn more about how energy is transmitted in such extreme environments,” Rahman says, quoted by Space.
But even if these stars of new scientific value, just look at how beautiful they appear in this particular image, taken by the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) New Technology Telescope, at the La Silla Observatory, in Chile.