Star launched out from the center of Milky Way is going at unimaginable speed
A solitary star traveling at blistering speed is on track to be ejected from the Milky Way galaxy and into intergalactic space. Astronomers think the monstrous black hole at the center of the galaxy propelled it, and it affirms a theory they've since quite a while ago held however always been unable to see up to this point.
The cosmologists, whose discoveries are published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, say the star is traveling at 3.7 million mph (1,027 miles per second) — around 10 times quicker than the majority of the stars in the galaxy.
“The velocity of the discovered star is so high that it will inevitably leave the Galaxy and never return,” co-author Douglas Boubert of the University of Oxford, said in a statement.
For perspective, the...