Thanks for posting that, Ann. I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but will during my upcoming 4-day weekend. :-) So, does this possibly contribute to the "MACHO" population, or is the theoretical number of rogue planets accompanied by their parent cast-off stars too low to be statistically meaningful to the whole "dark matter" question? C. On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Ann House <ann@annhouse.org> wrote:
New research by University of Utah astrophysicist Ben Bromley and his colleagues say there is strong evidence that super-massive black holes grow huge by repeatedly capturing one star from pairs of binary stars, while hurling the other binary partner into space at a hypervelocity of more than 1 million mph. This should be of particular interest to Siegfried!