Hyperfast Star Was Booted from Milky Way

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A hundred million years ago, a triple-star system was traveling
through the bustling center of our Milky Way galaxy when it
made a life-changing misstep. The trio wandered too close to
the galaxy's giant black hole, which captured one of the stars
and hurled the other two out of the Milky Way. Adding to the
stellar game of musical chairs, the two outbound stars merged
to form a super-hot, blue star.