A supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud is believed to be ejecting hypervelocity stars towards our galaxy. These stars, traveling at millions of miles per hour, are formed when a binary star system approaches the black hole too closely, causing one star to be captured while the other is expelled. Researchers used data from the Gaia mission to trace the origins of these fast-moving stars, revealing the presence of this previously unknown black hole. This discovery sheds new light on the dynamics of nearby galaxies and their interactions with the Milky Way
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