Astronomers have strengthened long-standing predictions that massive runaway stars could have originated in binary pairs, and were dramatically ejected into space when their companion stars underwent ...

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Astronomers have identified 20 ancient, metal-poor stars in the Milky Way’s galactic plane that likely originated from a long-vanished dwarf galaxy named “Loki.” The system, thought to have merged ...