A newly discovered star only takes four years to travel around the black hole at the center of our Milky Way. Astronomers have discovered the fastest known star, which travels around a black hole in record time. The star, S4716, orbits Sagittarius A*, the black hole in the center of our galaxy, in
Artist’s illustration of a black hole. A star was discovered zipping around the black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, at an astonishing speed of 8,000 km/s.
S4716 comes as close as 100 AU to the black hole – a small distance by astronomical standards. One AU is the approximate mean distance from the Earth to the Sun and corresponds to 149,597,871 kilometers . The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Cologne and Masaryk University in Brno and published on July 5, 2022, inIn the area near the black hole at the center of our galaxy is a densely packed cluster of stars.
By means of continuously refining methods of analysis, together with observations spanning almost twenty years, the astronomers have now identified without a doubt a star that travels around the central supermassive black hole in just four years. In total, five telescopes observed the star, with four of these five being combined into one large telescope to allow even more accurate and detailed observations.
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