Astronomers May Have Solved the Mystery Surrounding Blue Supergiant Stars from live hot potatoes play along shot Watch Video

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Astronomers May Have Solved, the Mystery Surrounding , Blue Supergiant Stars.<br/>'Newsweek' reports that astronomers now believe <br/>that some of the brightest and hottest stars in existence <br/>may be the result of collisions between two other stars.<br/>Scientists have long sought to determine <br/>how these intensely bright stars, <br/>known as blue supergiants, are formed. .<br/>According to a new paper published by <br/>'The Astrophysical Journal Letters,' scientists <br/>suggest that blue supergiants are the result <br/>of two binary stars merging into one.<br/>Blue supergiants, which are about 16 to 40 <br/>times the mass of our sun, are some of <br/>the most massive stars in the universe. .<br/>Their intensely hot surface temperatures <br/>are often two to five times hotter than our <br/>sun and over 10,000 times more luminous.<br/>'Newsweek' reports that the latest research <br/>looked at 59 early B-Type blue supergiant <br/>stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud, <br/>a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way galaxy. .<br/>We simulated the mergers <br/>of evolved giant stars with <br/>their smaller stellar companions <br/>over a wide range of parameters, <br/>taking into account the interaction <br/>and mixing of the two stars <br/>during the merger, Athira Menon, study author and an astrophysicist at the Instituto <br/>de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in Spain, via 'Newsweek'.<br/>The newly-born stars <br/>live as blue supergiants <br/>throughout the second <br/>longest phase of a star's life, <br/>when it burns helium in its core, Athira Menon, study author and an astrophysicist at the Instituto <br/>de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in Spain, via 'Newsweek'.<br/>The results obtained explain <br/>why blue supergiants are found <br/>in the so-called 'evolutionary gap' <br/>from classical stellar physics, <br/>a phase of their evolution where <br/>we would not expect to find stars, Artemio Herrero, study co-author and a researcher at the Instituto <br/>de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in Spain, via 'Newsweek'.<br/>The team reportedly hopes to continue its <br/>investigation into the role that merging stars <br/>could play in the formation of galaxies, as well as how <br/>blue supergiants form neutron stars or black holes. .<br/>The team reportedly hopes to continue its <br/>investigation into the role that merging stars <br/>could play in the formation of galaxies, as well as how <br/>blue supergiants form neutron stars or black holes.