Milky Way could be catapulting stars into its outer halo, astronomers say
Monday, April 20, 2020 - 02:20
in Astronomy & Space
Though mighty, the Milky Way and galaxies of similar mass are not without scars chronicling turbulent histories. University of California, Irvine astronomers and others have shown that clusters of supernovas can cause the birth of scattered, eccentrically orbiting suns in outer stellar halos, upending commonly held notions of how star systems have formed and evolved over billions of years.