About nine of the sixteen classifiable hypervelocity stars appear to have been ejected by a roughly 600,000-solar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which also explains their clustering in Leo.
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Hypervelocity Stars Trace a Supermassive Black Hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud
About nine of the sixteen classifiable hypervelocity stars appear to have been ejected by a roughly 600,000-solar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which also explains their clustering in Leo.