In the Milky Way’s central bulge, about 24,000 light-years from Earth, a peculiar pair of objects appears to be hurtling through space at breakneck speed.

Evidence suggests these objects are a high-velocity star and its accompanying exoplanet, a new study reports. If that’s confirmed, it would set a new record as the fastest-moving exoplanet system known to science.

Stars are on the move throughout the Milky Way, typically at a few hundred thousand miles per hour. Our Solar System’s average velocity through the galaxy’s Orion Arm is 450,000 miles per hour, or 200 kilometers per second.