Astronomers have found the fastest known star in the Milky Way, a faint object racing around Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy.

Astronomers have discovered the fastest known star in our galaxy, the Milky Way, orbiting the black hole at its center. The ...

Stellar movement near the supermassive Sagittarius A may offer scientists evidence for the long-held understanding that black ...

Star’s extreme proximity to Sagittarius A* means it could open new window onto black hole’s fundamental properties ...

The star S301 swoops so close to our galaxy's supermassive black hole that it could, for the first time ever, reveal that ...

Astronomers have found the fastest star in our galaxy – and is close to its black hole that it can feel its rotation. The ...

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

Never before has a star been observed going as fast as S301, which is estimated to be moving at a mere 56 million miles per ...

As researchers detail in a study published today in the journal Nature, a star dubbed S301 exists so close to Sagittarius A*, ...

In a matter of years, we will determine a crucial property of the supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way.