There could be planets around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy – and we may be ready to find them, scientists say. The finding not only sheds light on such stars, and how they might be able to survive such extreme environments.

Astronomers have observed a binary star system orbiting near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), published Tuesday in Nature Communications,

International researchers recently spotted a pair of stars orbiting around one another in surprisingly close proximity to Sagittarius A*.