NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour - NASA Science
NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour - NASA Science
science.nasa.gov NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour - NASA Science
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 ...
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Seems like one of the backyard astronomers managed to snap a picture of the fast moving object:
The idea of a black hole binary system just flinging stellar-mass objects around like children's toys is just a teensy bit terrifying, I must admit.