First Hyper Velocity Star Cluster Observed

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The discovery of HVGC-1, a hypervelocity globular cluster located near M87 in the Virgo Cluster, has been confirmed through photometric and spectroscopic data. This object exhibits an extraordinary blueshift of -1025 km/s, significantly offset from the systemic velocity by over 2300 km/s. The findings are documented in the paper available at arXiv:1402.6319, highlighting the importance of this discovery in the study of massive globular clusters and their dynamics.

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I thought this was pretty neat:

http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/science-hvgc1-hypervelocity-star-cluster-01897.html

http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.6319

From the abstract:
We report the discovery of an object near M87 in the Virgo Cluster with an extraordinary blueshift of -1025 km/s, offset from the systemic velocity by >2300 km/s. Evaluation of photometric and spectroscopic data provides strong evidence that this object is a distant massive globular cluster, which we call HVGC-1 in analogy to Galactic hypervelocity stars.
 
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nice, thanks for sharing that
 
A story on this discovery appeared two months ago: Physics Forums.
 

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