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Astronomers Discover Massive Star Moving At 1.5 million MPH
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Star is observed moving at 1.5M mph
GARCHING, Germany, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory´s Very Large Telescope have recorded a massive star moving at more than 1.5 million mph.
Since stars are not born with such large velocities, its position suggests it was ejected from the Large Magellanic Cloud, perhaps by a massive black hole in the Milky Way´s closest neighbor.
"At such a speed, the star would go around the Earth in less than a minute," said Uli Heber, one of the scientists at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, and Britain´s Center for Astrophysics Research at the University of Hertfordshire, who conducted the study.
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