Star Ejected By Milk Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Clocked At 3.7 Million Miles Per Hour

(CBS Local)— A runaway star traveling across our galaxy at an astonishing 3.7 million miles per hour is on track to be ejected from our Milky Way galaxy and into intergalactic space.
Astronomers believe the star, known as S5-HVS1, was part of a binary system, paired with another star, about 5 million years ago — about the time when human ancestors first walked on two feet. That companion star was captured and swallowed up by a black hole while S5-HSV1 was launched away at thousands o