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Something ‘kicked’ this hyperspeed star racing through the Milky Way at 2.3 million miles per hour (video)

If you were attacked by a greedy vampire star or risked falling into two dueling black holes, you’d probably run away too! One of these terrifying scenarios is likely responsible for sending a low-mass star across the Milky Way at a staggering million miles per hour (1.6 million kilometers per hour). This is approximately 1,500… Read More »

‘Odd couple’ kissing stars created by unromantic cannibalistic feeding dance

Valentine’s Day won’t be all hearts and flowers for some “kissing stars”; in other words, stars that exist as close binaries, one locked in a waltz that leaves a shrunken shell and the other a swollen sphere. . When astronomers zoomed in on a group of such “strange double” stars, they discovered that the bodies… Read More »