Binary star lurking near our galaxy’s centre surprises astronomers

Scientists find 2 stars 'thriving' on the brink of a giant black hole

Just on the outskirts of a supermassive black hole roughly 4 million times more massive than the sun, a pair of stars locked in a dance is thriving. Astronomers discovered the duo orbiting Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way galaxy's central supermassive black hole, using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile. The binary system, the first ever found in the vicinity of an enormous black hole, is dubbed D9.Black holes are som…

First Ever Pair Of Stars Orbiting Each Other Near Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole Discovered

In the words of one of the researchers: "Black holes are not as destructive as we thought".

A young binary star is found near Milky Way’s centre

The discovery of D9 disproves previously held opinions on the strength of black holes. Read more: A young binary star is found near Milky Way’s centre

Scientists find 1st binary star near Milky Way's supermassive black hole

An international team of researchers has discovered the first binary star system located near Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, a new study...

A World-First Discovery - Twin Stars Trapped Orbiting Galactic Black Hole

At the centre of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. It is roughly 27,000 light years from Earth and 23.5 million kilometres in diameter. In a world first, a team of astronomers led by Florian Peißker from the University of Cologne, Germany, have discovered a binary star system orbiting this black hole. The system is known as D9. Its discovery, announced in a new paper published today in Nature Communications, sheds…