Questions tagged [runaway-star]
Questions about stars which are moving through space with unusually high velocity relative to the surrounding interstellar medium.
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Why don’t runaway stars happen more often?
If stars are clustered together, isn’t a third star being ejected (becoming a runaway star) just a matter of time?
Then shouldn’t we expect most of stars to be runaway stars?
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When a fast-moving star goes supernova, how will the resulting remnant evolve?
Let's take a massive star that has zero velocity. When this star goes supernova, the resulting supernova remnant will expand in a sphere. But, let's take a runaway star travelling at 200 km/s. I am ...
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How can a star be "thrown out of the Milky Way" by Sagittarius A*?
A recent publication reports that a hypervelocity star on course to leave the galaxy was found, likely accelerated by the black hole at the center of the Milky Way in a process predicted by Jack G. ...
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Are black holes solely responsible for hyper velocity stars?
I read that the stars orbiting around Sagittarius A* (a.k.a the supermassive black hole located at the heart of the Milky Way) move very fast (many times faster than our Sun moves across the galaxy), ...
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