{"id":98568,"date":"2019-11-14T12:48:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T20:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=98568"},"modified":"2019-11-15T07:19:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T15:19:28","slug":"ejected-star-how-fast-is-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/ejected-star-how-fast-is-fast","title":{"rendered":"Ejected Star: How fast is fast?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><figcaption> The fastest man-made object pales in comparison to a Hills ejection <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/genevieve.ohagan.98?fref=gs&amp;__tn__=%2CdlC-R-R&amp;eid=ARD7fxDreixDfARFXaNnMR0kqNPhetJpbG_gDWjSHi83HTDemr-ZzWyOwOaT9pbmkzzOFNiHmKbDK8OB&amp;hc_ref=ARTiXmSlLa7FT3cqJCkQ8aLYctedy_jDk888Gf9IN52EcvGsf64ezQXw5qfJaKmdpnI&amp;dti=7172548454&amp;hc_location=group\">Genevieve O\u2019Hagan<\/a> updated Lifeboat readers on this week\u2019s momentous event in Astronomy. At least, I find it fascinating\u2014and so, I wish to add perspective\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 years ago, astronomer Jack Hills demonstrated the math behind what has become known as the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hills_mechanism\">Hills Mechanism<\/a>\u201d. Until this week, the event that he described had never been observed.* But his peer astronomers agreed that the physics and math should make it possible\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hills explained that under these conditions, a star <em><strong>might<\/strong><\/em> be accelerated to incredible speeds \u2014 and might be even flung out of its galaxy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Suppose that a binary star passes close to a black hole, like the one at the center of our galaxy <div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/ejected-star-how-fast-is-fast\">Continue reading \u201cEjected Star: How fast is fast?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, Genevieve O\u2019Hagan updated Lifeboat readers on this week\u2019s momentous event in Astronomy. At least, I find it fascinating\u2014and so, I wish to add perspective\u2026 30 years ago, astronomer Jack Hills demonstrated the math behind what has become known as the \u201cHills Mechanism\u201d. Until this week, the event that he described had never been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":353,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1545,224,8],"tags":[3649,2052,3651,3648,3647,3652,1017,3650],"class_list":["post-98568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-science","category-space","tag-binary-star","tag-black-hole","tag-fast-star","tag-hills-mechanism","tag-jack-hills","tag-leaving-the-galaxy","tag-milky-way","tag-stellar-ejection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98568"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98609,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98568\/revisions\/98609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}