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An artist impression of the mass-transfer phase followed by a double-detonation supernova that leads to the ejection of US 708. While this illustration shows the supernova, bottom center, and the ejected star, left, at the same time, in reality the supernova would have been faded away long before the star reached that position. Image credit: ESA / Hubble / NASA / S. Geier.

US 708: Hypervelocity Star Ejected by Supernova Breaks Galactic Speed Record

Mar 6, 2015 by News Staff

A multinational team of astronomers led by Dr Stephan Geier from the European Southern Observatory in Garching, Germany, has determined that a hypervelocity...