Could we perhaps clarify ejection mechanism?<br /><br /><br />Assume a single large blackhole at center of our galaxy. All kinds of stars, brown dwarfs, debris, and smaller black holes orbiting central object.<br /><br />I can imagine a binary star system 'swooping around' central blackhole and having system disrupted with result of one star being snarfed and other star being flung outward at high speed.<br /><br />I can also imagine a single or binary star having an encounter with a black hole in some kind of orbit around central object. In this case, we may have an encounter similar to Voyager spacecraft passing Jupiter, in that the object encountering a black hole orbiting central object now can possibly extract some of the orbital velocity and be accelerated to a greater extent than we may have earlier surmised.<br /><br />I realize every encounter will have different geometry, but with many encounters of both kinds, would we be expected to see in our region of galaxy two populations of objects fleeing galactic center? Seems like, on average, objects accelerated by second process may have different (greater?) speed than objects accelerated by first process?<br /><br />Do we expect to see binary stars on these trajectories? Do we see binaries on these trajectories? Can individual stars retain characteristics of having once been in binary system?<br /><br />This topic is extremely interresting to me. Appreciate all discussion/comments. <br />thanx <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>