
The surprising stars reveal the second most sharp supermassive hole | By Ethan Siegel | Start with an explosion! | Sea, 2025
This illustration shows how binary stars interact with a supermassive black hole to create a population of hypervelocity stars that end up being gravitationally kicked so strongly that they are expelled from their local galaxy. This process must be at stake in any galaxy with a supermassive black hole, including the nearby Magellanic (LMC) cloud,…