Science
This Star Is Moving So Fast it Visibly Warps Spacetime – Futurism
S62 is moving at eight percent the speed of light — just fast enough to see special relativity come into play.
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Scientists just identified the fastest-moving star in our galaxy, and its bookingit.
The star S62 whips around Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, at an extremely tight orbit. At its closest approach, it can travel faster than eight percent the speed of light, according to research published in The Astrophysical Journal. Thats fast enough to make visible the relativistic phenomena of time dilation and length contraction, turning the star into an in…
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