Enormous black hole napping after eating a ton of gas
Typically, black holes are detected by a tell-tale glow of a swirling accretion disc. This disc forms near the black hole’s ...
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First-ever star pair surviving extreme gravity trap of our galaxy’s black hole found
A supermassive black hole dubbed Sagittarius A* lurks at the heart of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The region surrounding ...
Twin Stars Spotted Orbiting Near Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
Astronomers have observed a binary star system orbiting near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way ...
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Two stars may be orbiting each other near a supermassive black hole in the Way galaxy
Scientists know stars can form near and even orbit these black hole behemoths, but they’ve never seen a pair of stars survive ...
Two stars may be orbiting each other near a supermassive black hole in our Milky Way galaxy
At about 2.7 million years old, the twin stars seem to be fairly young. Scientists said they appear to orbit each other at ...
Binary star system found near the Milky Way's black hole: An 'amazing' discovery, astrophysicists say
Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way ...
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Binary star system finally discovered near Milky Way center
Binary stars can’t survive long near the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole — but for the first time, astronomers have ...
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First Binary Star Found Near Sagittarius A*
The newly discovered binary was found in a dense cluster of stars and other objects orbiting Sagittarius A*, called the S cluster. Most enigmatic in this cluster are the G objects, which behave like ...
There could be planets around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy, scientists say
There could be planets around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy – and we may be ready to find them, ...