That's almost scary in a way. This thing is larger than the sun! If I read the article correctly. yikes.

Amazing.

If you can't trust the laws of physics, what can you trust?

A star with bigger balls to explode? Astronomy and the mysteries of space never cease to amaze me.

There are stars out there that are much more massive than our sun. Some of which are so intensly hot that they glow blue.

I should imagine that the cause for concern is that there's an upper limit on the size of star, beyond which point the star collapses into a black hole.

So clearly, this thing has been stable long enough to grow old and then die...

Correction, exploding star breaks the CURRENTLY "KNOWN" laws of physics. That's the beauty of science. You're always learning something new. I always find it funny how some scientists are always perplexed when something doesn't happen as expected, like somehow we already know everything there is to be known.