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Hypervelocity Star Zooms Through Milky Way at Record Speed

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Source: Newser
Hypervelocity Star Zooms Through Milky Way at Record Speed
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The runaway star J1249+36 is speeding through our galaxy at a million miles an hour, fast enough to escape its gravitational pull. Theories suggest it was either ejected by a supernova explosion of a white dwarf or by the dynamics of a black hole binary in a globular cluster. Researchers aim to study its elemental composition to determine its origin.

Topics:sciencescience-and-space#black-holes#hypervelocity-stars#j124936#runaway-star#science-and-space#supernova
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