• A newly discovered star only takes four years to travel around the black hole at the centre of our galaxy. The star, S4716, orbits Sagittarius A*, the black hole in the centre of our Milky Way, in four years and reaches a speed of around 8000 kilometres per second. https://portal.uni-koeln.de/en/universitaet/aktuell/press-releases/single-news/8000-kilometres-per-second-star-with-the-shortest-orbital-period-around-black-hole-discovered 61 comments 9/7/2022 science

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