Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

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Around the galaxy exist stars that have been given a push, and orbit much faster than the vast majority of their stellar ...

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

The Milky Way can be seen as something of a bully, having devoured many smaller galaxies to achieve its vast mass, and ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

The Sun, in turn, travels around the center of the Milky Way, moving alongside hundreds of billions of other stars. It takes about 230 million years to complete one orbit around our galaxy.

Researchers said on Thursday that they had discovered twin-lobed radio jets they suspect were formed when the universe was ...

Astronomers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center may have discovered a star hurtling through the Milky Way with a planet ...

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