A record-breaking star could reveal how the Milky Way’s giant black hole spins (www.sciencenews.org)

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The star passes very close to the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole and could reveal the black hole’s spin by tracking how it warps the star’s orbit.

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[-] Bryllyg@quokk.au 3 points 6 days ago

Oh ya, i heard about this on public radio. It's moving at like 8% of the speed of light. That is faaaaaast.

As someone that has visited the center of the galaxy in a video game (Elite Damgerous), it would be freaking wild if the game developers could take these kinds of findings and add it. It would make visiting Sag. A way more exciting lol.

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