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Astronomers at the European Space Agency (ESA) combined an “artificial brain” with observations from the advanced Gaia space satellite to discover six stars darting across our galaxy following as-yet-poorly-understood encounters with Milky Way’s supermassive black hole.
Source: https://www.rt.com/news/395087-gaia-hypervelocity-stars-milky/ [rt.com]