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by altrego99 4104 days ago
Good comment, sets lots of context right.

> Maybe an asteroid or comet that got flung by a high-gravity body (black hole? neutron star?) or supernova debris could do that?

I don't think a black hole can fling any particle with speed orders of magnitude higher than the initial speed of either the black hole or the particle.