Sentences with phrase «other hypervelocity stars»
US 708 has another peculiar property in marked contrast to other hypervelocity stars: it is a rapidly rotating, compact helium star likely formed by interaction with a close companion.
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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 thypervelocity 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 tHypervelocity 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.
«The other hypervelocity velocity stars discovered so far are all at least consistent with coming from the galactic centre,» Portegies Zwart says.
A hypervelocity star appears to be the remains of a three - star system, one star of which was digested by the Milky Way's black hole, with the other two being combined and hurled away.
Discovered in 2005, US 708 differs from other known hypervelocity stars.