As humankind’s ancestors were learning to walk upright, a star was launched out of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy at a staggering 3.7 million mph (6 million km/h). Source: https://www.livescience.com/star-ejected-milky-way.html
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Runaway star – out of the galactic heart of darkness like a bat out of hell
The discovery of the star, known as S5-HVS1, was made by Sergey Koposov from Carnegie Mellon University as part of the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S5). Located in the constellation of Grus—the Crane—S5-HVS1 was found to be moving ten times faster than most stars in the Milky Way. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-11-runaway-star-galactic-heart-darkness.html…