Cosmology with hypervelocity stars

@article{Loeb2011CosmologyWH,
  title={Cosmology with hypervelocity stars},
  author={Abraham Loeb},
  journal={Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics},
  year={2011},
  volume={2011},
  pages={023-023}
}
  • A. Loeb
  • Published 31 January 2011
  • Physics
  • Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
In the standard cosmological model, the merger remnant of the Milky Way and Andromeda (Milkomeda) will be the only galaxy remaining within our event horizon once the Universe has aged by another factor of ten, ~ 1011 years after the Big Bang. After that time, the only extragalactic sources of light in the observable cosmic volume will be hypervelocity stars being ejected continuously from Milkomeda. Spectroscopic detection of the velocity-distance relation or the evolution in the Doppler shifts… 
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