Saturday, September 10, 2011

What supermassive star is known or believed to have the largest number of smaller stars orbitting it?

I see many stars that are even bigger relative to our sun than our sun is to most of the other planets in our solar system. Surely there have to be some multiple-star systems arranged in which tiny stars such as our Sol orbit much more massive stars such as VY Canis Majoris.|||Castor is a sextuple star system, meaning it has 5 stars orbiting it.


ADS 973 is also sextuple star system.





You can read more about multiple star systems and about Castor in the sources below:|||Vy Canis Majoris is just big and no stars really orbit another star because a star's gravity is great enough where they orbit each other.|||VY Canis Majoris is not that massive for its size. It just has a large volume.

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