Mystery Of Runaway Stars Revealed
Do you know there are stars in the universe that are racing through the sky at a staggering high speed that is in the order of 1000 km/second? This speed is 10 or more times the speed of normal stars that move at 100 km/second. The Milky Way galaxy's fastest hypervelocity star, US 708, runs at the speed of 1200 km/second while an ordinary star like our sun has the speed of only 200 km/second. "But how is this possible?" "Which mechanism causes such a massive body to move at this high speed?" What Is A Runway Star? A runaway star is a star that is moving through interstellar space at tremendously high speed. We know these stars for several decades but we are still unable to find out the reason for their exceptional speed. In 2005, astronomers found that these stars travel so fast that even the gravity of the galaxy can not stop them . In an attempt to calculate its orbit, they realized that it had come from somewhere near the center of the galaxy. The star was