Space Daily September 02, 2026 • 10:00

A newly found star circles the Milky Way's central black hole every 8.7 years and passes it at about 25,000 kilometres a second, more than 8 percent of the speed of light, and the pass is so close that its discoverers say there is a fair chance of measuring the hol - Space Daily

S301 turned up as a smudge in a reconstructed image in 2023 and was then found again in archived pointings from 2021 and 2017. No spin has been measured. The decade-long timeline comes from a simulated dataset running to 2035, one assuming a radial velocity t…

A faint point of light showed up 15 milliarcseconds northwest of Sagittarius A* in the spring of 2023, not in a raw frame but in an image reconstructed from interferometry data. Its position and the … [+10084 chars]

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A newly found star circles the Milky Way's central black hole every 8.7 years and passes it at about 25,000 kilometres a second, more than 8 percent of the speed of light, and the pass is so close that its discoverers say there is a fair chance of measuring the hol - Space Daily

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