most citedThe R136 star cluster hosts several stars whose individual masses greatly exceed the accepted 150 Msun stellar mass limit

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The R136 star cluster hosts several stars whose individual masses greatly exceed the accepted 150 Msun stellar mass limit

Paul A Crowther, Olivier Schnurr, Raphael Hirschi +4

Spectroscopic analyses of H-rich WN5-6 stars within the young star clusters NGC 3603 and R136 are presented, using archival HST & VLT spectroscopy, & high spatial resolution near-I…