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Astronomers Find 11 'Runaway' Galaxies In Deep Space

• http://motherboard.vice.com, by BECKY FERREIRA

As a result, it is not at all uncommon for stars in the vicinity of colossal cosmic disruptions to be blasted into deep space at dizzying velocities, destined to roam through the interstellar void alone as so-called "runaway stars."

According to a study published this week in Science, stars aren't the only celestial objects at risk of being kicked out of their clusters. Apparently, galaxies can also be unceremoniously catapulted into deep space, as evidenced by the discovery of 195 previously unknown compact elliptical galaxies, 11 of which are hurtling through the intergalactic void at velocities of up to six million miles per hour, or 3,000 kilometers per second. 

"These galaxies are facing a lonely future, exiled from the galaxy clusters they used to live in," said lead author Igor Chilingarian, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, in a statement.


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