A Super Runner in the Milky Way
LAMOST found a massive young star with “super speed” running away from the Milky Way!
Hypervelocity stars: what are they running from?
Five new hypervelocity stars have been discovered in the outer regions of the Milky Way. In this paper, the authors discuss what these stars are, how they got so far away, and what their distribution implies about the center of our galaxy.