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Most familiar stars peacefully orbit the center of the Milky Way. But citizen scientists working on NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have helped discover an object moving so fast that it will escape the Milky Way’s gravity and shoot into intergalactic space. This hypervelocity object is the first such object found with the mass similar to or […]
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That’s sort of fast I suppose
What is it and where it goin’?
OHLOOKITSTHEREawww it’s gone
Whatta ya mean, you blinked??
Relative to what?
Planet 9 project have helped discover an object moving so fast that it will escape the Milky Way’s gravity and shoot into intergalactic space.
The galaxy presumably.
Isn’t the sun revolving around the center of the milky way at approximately 450,000 mph? And the Earth revolves around the sun, so we’re moving about half as fast as this new object right now. One million is pretty fast, but context makes it a little less shocking.
clearly an Interstellar traveller
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