The Galaxy’s Fastest Star Could Reveal the Secrets of a Supermassive Black Hole
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- Wired·21h agoThe Galaxy’s Fastest Star Could Reveal the Secrets of a Supermassive Black Hole
S301 passes close to Sagittarius A*—so close that its orbit could reveal how the black hole’s rotation warps the spacetime around it.
Read at Wired → - Scientific American·2d agoThe Milky Way’s fastest star could expose our black hole’s spin
The star S301 swoops so close to our galaxy’s supermassive black hole that it could, for the first time ever, reveal that dark behemoth’s rotation
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