CWISE, around 27,000 times larger than Earth, was spotted a couple of years ago hurtling through space at around 1 million miles per hour and could escape the Milky Way
Nasa is tracking a mystery object zooming around the Milky Way at more than 1 million miles per hour, and could be about to shoot into intergalactic space.
Citizen scientist Martin Kabatnik, from Nuremberg, Germany, said: “I can't describe the level of excitement.READ MORE: Electric Picnic 2025: How to buy tickets for next year's festival as 'special' headliner lined upIt is believed CWISE originally came from a binary system with a white dwarf which exploded into a supernova. It also could have come from a cluster which came into contact with a pair of black holes, sparking its speedy trip.
A report into the discovery reads: “We report the discovery of a high velocity, very low-mass star or brown dwarf whose kinematics suggest it is unbound to the Milky Way. CWISE was identified by citizen scientists in the Backyard Worlds: “In the past, survival as the mass donor companion to an exploded white dwarf. Acceleration through a three-body interaction with a black hole binary in a globular cluster, and accretion from a Milky Way satellite system.
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