Hypervelocity Star Leaving a Galaxy (IMAGE)

University of Utah

Hypervelocity Star Leaving a Galaxy

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This is an astrophysicist-artist's conception of a hypervelocity star speeding away from the visible part of a spiral galaxy like our Milky Way and into the invisible halo of mysterious "dark matter" that surrounds the galaxy's visible portions. University of Utah researcher Zheng Zheng and colleagues in the US and China discovered the closest bright hypervelocity star yet found.

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Ben Bromley, University of Utah.

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