The study looked at hypervelocity stars, ones that are screaming through space at speeds far higher than stars around them. Some of these stars are moving so rapidly that they have reached galactic escape velocity; the Milky Way’s gravity can’t hold them. In the coming eons, they’ll flee the galaxy entirely. And we have good reason to believe these runaway stars were launched by SMBHs—but how?
What does this have to do with the post, apart from vaguely being about space
good fucking question! i don’t think i replied to this post, but it’s weird that it’s still space-related. i wish i could remember what i actually replied to (edit - or rather which post i thought i was replying to. this was clearly a pebkac issue, but i can’t figure out how it happened_
Maybe you clicked thru inside the article to another one about Europa
maybe? either way, sorry for just throwing a random europa hot take at you like that (yeah, i chose those words that way hahah)
It’s all good. I looked at Scientific American’s recent articles and none were about Europa. Also nobody has posted on Lemmy about Europa (the moon) in the past 2 weeks. A mystery that may never be solved.
i’m a space geek with adhd, so maybe the answer is closer than you think