Scientists Find Fastest Milky Way Runaway Star 2023
The fastest runaway star in the Milky Way was found after six more were found.
Two of the stars had record-breaking heliocentric radial velocities for runaway stars. J1235 travels 1,694 kilometers (1,053 miles) every second, and J0927 2,285 kilometers (1,420 miles).
Four of the newly measured objects are hypervelocity stars, traveling at speeds that exceed the escape velocity of the Milky Way, and all four, according to a team led by Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics astrophysicist Kareem El-Badry, are likely the result of spectacular Type Ia supernovae, the "standard candles" by which we measure the Universe.
This has allowed them to calculate the birth rate of these stars, which matches the anticipated rate of Type Ia supernovae. The Open Journal of Astrophysics publi...