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Not sure about this one... according to this study the escape velocity of the Milky Way is around 550 km/s. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021A%26A...649A.
by arbuge 2y ago
Not sure about this one... according to this study the escape velocity of the Milky Way is around 550 km/s.
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021A%26A...649A.136K/abstract https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021A%26A...649A.136K/abst...
The authors of that study cited above are pretty confident it's above 497 +/- 8 km/s, at least in the solar neighborhood.
1M Miles per hour works out to 446 km/s. Granted these are all rough numbers, and it depends exactly where you are in the Milky Way, but it looks like it may be a bit short of actually escaping.
- uncivilized 2y agoIf you actually read the research paper linked in the article, it says the speed may exceed that of the escape velocity of the Milky Way, suggesting that it is not proven as fact yet.
- _moof 2y agoEscape velocity varies with distance from the center of mass. Is the distance in that paper comparable to the distance of the discovered object?