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Most familiar stars peacefully orbit the center of the Milky Way. But citizen scientists working on NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have helped discover an object moving so fast that it will escape the Milky Way’s gravity and shoot into intergalactic space. This hypervelocity object is the first such object found with the mass similar to or […]
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1 million miles an hour is so fast, the speed of light is still 671 times faster.
So you’re saying it’s relatively slow?
Yes. Still relatively fast though too.
It is pretty wild how so much mass could be accelerated to that speed.
The idea that a 3 body system could cause it is really cool. Probably not useful to us, but still very cool
I’m getting mass just thinking about it.
Did Fukitech release a 3 body system!?
Dammit, I just got the 2!
That’s 0.0015c
Relative to what?
Planet 9 project have helped discover an object moving so fast that it will escape the Milky Way’s gravity and shoot into intergalactic space.
The galaxy presumably.
That’s sort of fast I suppose
What is it and where it goin’?
OHLOOKITSTHEREawww it’s gone
Whatta ya mean, you blinked??
Isn’t the sun revolving around the center of the milky way at approximately 450,000 mph? And the Earth revolves around the sun, so we’re moving about half as fast as this new object right now. One million is pretty fast, but context makes it a little less shocking.
That’s not context, that’s using arbitrary reference frames.
I don’t think that’s entirely fair to say. The headline reads sensationally about a celestial object, but our own sun is traveling at almost half that speed, and we’re following it. I’m not trying to prove that the Earth is incredibly fast, only that the headline may sound more impressive than it is.
clearly an Interstellar traveller
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Ah, a photoid strike, finally.
The question is, did they miss their first target?