Via – Fox News

Forget out of this world. How about out of this galaxy?

Approximately 5 million years ago, a star got too close to the “mind-boggling” black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy and was “ejected,” a new study has found.

The star, known as S5-HVS1, ventured too close to the black hole and when it did, it was hurtled “at the blistering speed of 6 million kilometers per hour.” When astronomers discovered it, it was found to be moving “nearly 10 times faster than most of the stars in the galaxy.”

“The velocity of the discovered star is so high that it will inevitably leave the galaxy and never return,” one of the study’s co-authors, Douglas Boubert, said in a statement.

The study’s lead author, Sergey Kospov, said the discovery was “super exciting,” as astronomers have long suspected that black holes are able to eject stars, but they had never seen it before.

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