In the early 1960s, Dutch astronomer Adriaan Blaauw observed stars moving at unusually high speeds moving through the Milky ...

Astronomers have conducted the largest observational study of runaway stars, along with rotation and binarity in the Milky Way. The research reveals how these 'fugitives' are launched into space.

This illustration shows a star exploding as a supernova and subjecting its binary companion to the explosion’s brute force. If conditions are right, the binary companion can be ejected from the galaxy ...