Sentences with phrase «called hypervelocity»
The star, dubbed HE 0437 - 5439, is an early - type star and one of ten so - called hypervelocity stars so far found speeding away from the Milky Way.
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Only a few so - called hypervelocity stars are known to travel with velocities so high that they are unbound, meaning they will not orbit the galaxy, but instead will escape its gravity to wander intergalactic space.
These superfast planets (called hypervelocity planets) are produced the same way as hypervelocity stars.
Other so - called hypervelocity stars are thought to have been boosted to their high speeds by close encounters with our galaxy's supermassive black hole (see Hypervelocity stars: Catch them while you can), but this star is too young to have travelled all the way from the centre of the Milky Way.
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To simulate the results from a hypervelocity impact plasma, researchers used a method called particle - in - cell simulation that allows them to model the plasma and the electromagnetic fields simultaneously.