When you look up at the night sky you see a lot of stars that, in relation to our own planet, haven’t moved a whole lot in a very, very long time. But some of the stars in our home galaxy aren’t so lucky, and astronomers recently identified one in particular that is absolutely speeding its way out of the Milky Way, and they think they know why.
The star, known by its label S5-HVS1, got a little too close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy around five million years ago. When it did, the black hole flung it away at an incredible speed, and it’s moving so fast that it’s essentially been evicted from our galaxy.
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Our galaxy spat out a star so fast that it’s never coming back originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 14 Nov 2019 at 22:32:38 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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