White dwarf hurtling across the Milky Way at 560,000mph after ‘partial supernova’

A white dwarf star has been spotted hurtling through the Milky Way at 560,000 miles per hour thanks to a thermonuclear blast from a ‘partial supernova’, study found. Astronomers from the University of Warwick used observations from the Hubble Space Telescope to find out what sent the white dwarf on its journey. The white dwarf has … Read more