Hubble spots blue star ‘spat out’ by Milky Way travelling through space at 1.6million mph

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Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a rare hypervelocity star that was spat out of the centre of our galaxy and is travelling three times as fast as the Sun.

Scientists believe that it was created when three stars travelling together passed too close to the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way around a hundred million years ago.

One of the stars was captured while the other two were flung out of the galaxy and merged to form a super-hot blue star travelling at around 1.6 million miles per hour.

A Nasa graphic showing how the 'blue straggler' was spat out of the centre of our galaxy

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