13-04-2016 20:12 via scitechdaily.com

New Discovery Challenges Dark Matter, Stellar Acceleration Models

Astronomers have discovered a hypervelocity binary star that challenges dark matter and stellar acceleration models. A team of astronomers at the Friedrich Alexander University led by Péter Németh has discovered a binary star moving nearly at the escape velocity of our galaxy. There are about two dozen so-called hypervelocity stars known to be escaping the […]
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