Hypervelocity Stars Hint at a Supermassive Black Hole Just outside the Milky Way
Hypervelocity Stars Hint at a Supermassive Black Hole Just outside the Milky Way
Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black hole in a neighboring galaxy
The study looked at hypervelocity stars, ones that are screaming through space at speeds far higher than stars around them. Some of these stars are moving so rapidly that they have reached galactic escape velocity; the Milky Way’s gravity can’t hold them. In the coming eons, they’ll flee the galaxy entirely. And we have good reason to believe these runaway stars were launched by SMBHs—but how?
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sorry for sounding like a prick, but here goes:
europa is SO uninhabitable. you couldn't make it to the potentially survivable part. and even if you could, you'd be under more pressure than our deepest oceans could ever imagine. i could go further, but i'm trying to not be a prick.
Are you in the right thread?
am i ever?
What does this have to do with the post, apart from vaguely being about space
good fucking question! i don't think i replied to this post, but it's weird that it's still space-related. i wish i could remember what i actually replied to (edit - or rather which post i thought i was replying to. this was clearly a pebkac issue, but i can't figure out how it happened_
Maybe you clicked thru inside the article to another one about Europa
maybe? either way, sorry for just throwing a random europa hot take at you like that (yeah, i chose those words that way hahah)
It's all good. I looked at Scientific American's recent articles and none were about Europa. Also nobody has posted on Lemmy about Europa (the moon) in the past 2 weeks. A mystery that may never be solved.
i'm a space geek with adhd, so maybe the answer is closer than you think
Unrelated but I just had this Europa argument with someone at my Mutants and Masterminds (2e) game because I suggested it as a place for a hidden alien observation post.
Went in thinking about Huggies, i mean Hypervelocity and went out depressed thinking about my life in europa. So the pressure i feel in germany is not only in my head?