Sentences with phrase «most hypervelocity stars»
Astronomers suspect that most hypervelocity stars leave the Milky Way after a close brush with the supermassive black hole that sits at the center of our galaxy.
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As the team report today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and at the U.K. National Astronomy Meeting in Hull, most of the known hypervelocity stars have trajectories that would fit this scenario.
But a new study shows that most of the 20 or so hypervelocity stars found so far might actually come from outside our own galaxy, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way at nearly 400 kilometers per second.