• Question: what is the gravataionnal pull of the biggest star know to man

    Asked by phoebephenix to Asif, Laura, Lena, Sean, Viv on 14 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Laura Waters

      Laura Waters answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      A black hole has a very large gravitational pull.

    • Photo: Sean Murphy

      Sean Murphy answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      The largest known star is called VY Canis Majoris and is about 2000 times larger than our sun. The strength of gravity on the “surface” of the sun is 28 times stronger than the force of gravity on the surface of the Earth. So VY Canis Majoris would have a gravitational pull of about 56,000 times that of earth. Yep you would be squashed (and pretty badly sunburnt)

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