VY Canis Majoris:Largest Star in MilkyWay is Dying,Could Collapse Into A Black Hole @TheCosmosNews

#thecosmosnews The Largest Star in The Milky Way Is Slowly Dying, And Astronomers Are Watching Scientists have got their hands on one of the most detailed images of a dying star, that too of probably the largest one in our galaxy -- VY Canis Majoris, as per a report by The Independent. To the unaware, VY Canis Majoris is a red hypergiant that can stretch almost 10,000 times the distance between our planet and the sun in diameter. However, not much is known about the death of such red hypergiants. Scientists believe that instead of blowing up into a big red sphere like most of this category, hypergiants are known to grow into irregular arcs and protrusions in a series of phases, releasing considerable amounts of mass. However, recently, researchers from the University of Arizona managed to trace these protrusions, resulting in the capturing of the clearest image of a hypergiant star till date. This was done thanks to the Atacama Large Millimeter Array radio telescope in Chile, where astronomers traced specific molecules in the matter ejected from the gargantuan star.