The runaway binary Mel 34 was ejected from R136 52,000 years ago in a five-body encounter between the binary Mel 39 with an orbiting third star VFTS 590 and the binary Mel 34.
The triple was composed of ((Mel 39A, Mel 39B), VFTS 590) with orbital separations of 4.0 ± 0.5 au for the inner target orbit, and an outer orbit between 40 au and 200 au
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The origin of the most recently ejected OB runaway star from the R136 cluster
The runaway binary Mel 34 was ejected from R136 52,000 years ago in a five-body encounter between the binary Mel 39 with an orbiting third star VFTS 590 and the binary Mel 34.