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The Galaxy’s Fastest Star Could Reveal the Secrets of a Supermassive Black Hole
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Illustration: Universal History Archive/Getty Images Comment Loader Save Story Save this story Comment Loader Save Story Save this story A team of astronomers has just detected the fastest star in the galaxy. Its anomalous speed has a more unsettling explanation: It orbits Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, the mass of which is equivalent to four million times that of the Sun.
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