Tag: Warren Brown

  • Nation & World

    Hyperfast star was booted from Milky Way

    A hundred million years ago, a triple-star system was traveling through the bustling center of our Milky Way galaxy when it made a life-changing misstep. The trio wandered too close to the galaxy’s giant black hole, which captured one of the stars and hurled the other two out of the Milky Way.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Two exiled stars are leaving our galaxy forever

    TV reality show contestants aren’t the only ones under threat of exile. Astronomers using the MMT Observatory in Arizona have discovered two stars exiled from the Milky Way galaxy. Those…

    2 minutes