Runaway

Space & Cosmos

Runaway Star reveals hidden black holes of the Milky Way’s most recent neighbor

Impressions of the Hyper Belt Lattist artist ejected from the large Magellan cloud (shown on the right). If the binary star system gets too close to an ultra-large number of black holes, intense gravity will tear the pair apart. One star is captured in a tight orbit around a black hole, while the other jumps outward at extreme speeds. Often,…