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.
It is host of the largest known population of stars more massive than 100 M⊙ and several even in excess of 150M⊙ [7, 8]
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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.