Not good enough for the Milky Way Galaxy!

Here's a cool story. For the first time ever, scientists have seen a star escape the gravitational confines of the Milky Way Galaxy. The star probably got lobbed out of our galaxy by a black hole when it approached at just the perfect angle to use the centripital force exerted by the black hole to circle around and get thrown away. Meanwhile, its poor companion star wasn't so lucky and is most likely trapped forever in the black hole.