# XRISM captures galaxy wind three times faster than M82's escape speed

- slug: xrism-captures-galaxy-wind-three-times-faster-than-m82s-escape-speed
- date: 2026-03-25
- category: Space & Aerospace

Astronomers have clocked gas hurtling out of a nearby galaxy at more than 3 million kilometers per hour — and the reading is making some old models look incomplete.

A team led by Erin Boettcher, an astrophysicist at the University of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, used the XRIS...

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