Telescope spies the fastest star in the Milky Way zipping around a black hole - WXXV News 25
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Telescope spies the fastest star in the Milky Way zipping around a black hole - WXXV News 25
By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN NEW YORK (AP) — A telescope has spied the fastest known star in our galaxy, racing around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The star is zipping around the black hole, reaching speeds of about 15,534 miles per second (25,000 kilometers per second). That’s 100,000 times faster than a commercial plane. “That star is really, extremely fast,” said astronomer Stefan Gillessen with the Max Planck Insti…
Astronomers discover the fastest star of the Milky Way, which reaches 8% of the speed of light
The star S301 orbit around Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky Way, on the nearest and fastest path ever measured for a star. This extreme proximity would give access, for the first time, to the rotation of the black hole.
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