Something ‘kicked’ this super-fast star racing through the Milky Way at 2.1 million kilometers per hour (video)
If you were attacked by a ravenous vampire star or risked falling into two dueling black holes, you'd probably run too!
One of these terrifying scenarios is likely responsible for sending a low-mass star flying through the Milky Way at a staggering million miles per hour (1.6 million kilometers per hour). That's about 1,500 times faster than the speed of sound.
The star is called CWISE J124909+362116.0 (J1249+36) and was first discovered by citizen science volunteers from the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project, who are exploring the vast amount of data collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer ( WISE) ...