It was theorized that they were the last surviving Population I stars in the cluster, about to reach supernova. Because of their proximity to each other (roughly 4 light years), if one underwent a supernova, it would trigger supernovas in the other three, thus destroying the local region of the cluster. Some main sequence stars would probably also suffer this fate if they were close enough.
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