A MONSTROUS pulsating star has been spotted near the centre of our galaxy, confirming a prediction that had almost been discarded as a theoretical blunder.
In 2000, Ernst Dorfi and Alfred Gautschy of the University of Vienna in Austria used a computer model to predict that the most massive stars in the universe should start pulsating as they reach the end of their lives. While this is a commonly observed phenomenon among low-mass stars such as the sun, there was no evidence for such behaviour in more massive stars, raising doubts about the theory behind the model.
Now, Darren DePoy…
