Fastest ever star discovered orbiting Milky Way’s supermassive black hole – CNET

Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, is surrounded by a group of stars moving at extreme speeds.
NASA/CXC/Univ. of Wisconsin/Y.Bai, et al.
At the center of our galaxy is Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), a humongous black hole about four million times the mass of our sun. Being so big, its gravitational effects are extreme and they can be detected by looking at the stars in its immediate vicinity. Orbiting Sgr A* are a handful of stars (and some mysterious objects), locke…

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