Super-fast star detection

Chinese-Chinese scientists have discovered a super-fast star, moving at a rate of 1.6 million km / h, located near the center of the Milky Way.

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This is the closest and largest super-speed star to the solar system, 42,400 light-years from Earth.

New concept images of super-speed stars have been discovered - (Photo: University of Utah, USA)

The size of the star is nine times larger, four times hotter and 3,400 times brighter than the sun, but it is only about 32 million years old, compared with 4.6 billion years of the sun.

In the last 10 years, astronomers have found about 20 super-speed stars like this, which are thought to be the remains of a binary star system and are too close to the giant black hole in the center of the Strip. Galaxy.

'Super speed stars tell us a lot about the Milky Way, especially the central part and dark matter halo at the center of the galaxy' , according to Space.com quoted Zheng Zheng of the University of Utah (USA).

According to a report published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, the speed and path of newly discovered supernovae may reveal important information about the Milky Way's mysterious dark matter halo.