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A Star Moving at High Speed Could Test the Rotation of the Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way

The fastest star in the Milky Way reaches 25,000 km/s and could reveal how the central black hole spins.A newly discovered star, S301, could help astronomers determine the spin of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, for the first time.Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, has a spin that has yet to be precisely determined. A black hole's rotation, or spin, is described by …

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Astronomers may have found new evidence that 'black hole stars' really exist. This is a new, as yet unconfirmed, type of celestial body: gigantic spheres of gas that look like a star from the outside, but which hide a black hole inside. A black hole star has reportedly been found that emits 100 billion times more energy than an ordinary star and is as large as our entire solar system.

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From the pristine skies of the Atacama desert, astronomers discovered the star S301. Turning to the edge of the black hole Sagittarius A*, this object reaches extreme speeds that defy known physics and test the theory of relativity.Our star S301, today orbits around a black hole where it reaches unimaginable speeds.In the exact center of our galaxy, more than 26,000 light years from Earth, lives Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), a supermassive black hole…

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The star, named S301, approaches the black hole Sagittarius A* at a distance The entrance While our Sun travels at more than 800 thousand kilometers per hour, this newly discovered star moves at 25 thousand kilometers per second in the center of the Milky Way was first published in Research and Development.

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