SciShow Space: 3 Ways to Slingshot a Star

Teacher or professor: SciShow Space
Subject: Astronomy, Astronautics, Astrophysics
Content of the Lesson: Go to http://curiositystream.com/Space to start streaming Knowing Without Seeing. Use the promo code ‘space’ during the sign-up process to get your first 31 days free. The star-mapping satellite Gaia has found more than 20 stars speeding across the Milky Way toward intergalactic space. There are just a few things that can slingshot a star out of a galaxy and all of them take some extreme gravitational interactions. Host: Caitlin Hofmeister SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/physical-world/2018/unbound-and-out-boosted-black-holes-stars-speed-leaving-clues-behind. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.04184.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1308.3495.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.02029.pdf https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/469/2/2151/3573852 https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-astro-082214-122230 http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/1925-ssc2008-10b-A-Roadmap-to-the-Milky-Way-Annotated- ------ Images: http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2013/08/Artist_s_impression_of_Gaia2 https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Gaia/Gaia_spots_stars_flying_between_galaxies https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:X-RayFlare-BlackHole-MilkyWay-20140105.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_649.html https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1311b/ https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1509c/ https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo1019b/


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