by Lindsay DeMarchi | Nov 30, 2022 | Daily Paper Summaries
The collision –or even a near-miss– of a neutron star and a main sequence star can possibly explain long-lived, bumpy supernovae and hypervelocity stars.
by Catherine Manea | Feb 16, 2021 | Daily Paper Summaries
The search for the elusive intermediate-mass black hole continues. Today’s authors present a novel method to search for Milky Way intermediate-mass black holes with the hyper-velocity stars they eject!
by Wei Vivyan Yan | Jan 21, 2020 | Daily Paper Summaries
LAMOST found a massive young star with “super speed” running away from the Milky Way!
by Emma Foxell | May 15, 2019 | Daily Paper Summaries
This astrobite looking at a star that is moving so fast, it can escape our galaxy. But is everything as it seems?
by Guest | Jul 13, 2018 | Daily Paper Summaries
A mysterious pair of stars speeding through the outskirts of our galaxy together puzzles astronomers
by Tarini Konchady | May 1, 2018 | Daily Paper Summaries
Hypervelocity stars are oddball stars that appear to be breaking free of the Milky Way. Can the second Gaia data release tell us more about them?