RESOLVING THE LEDGER
RESOLVING THE LEDGER
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The star S301 swoops so close to our galaxy’s supermassive black hole that it could, for the first time ever, reveal that dark behemoth’s rotation
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The star S301 swoops so close to our galaxy’s supermassive black hole that it could, for the first time ever, reveal that dark behemoth’s rotation
Read this reportStar, moving at 8% the speed of light, may let us measure the black hole's rotation.
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Researchers have identified a speed demon at the heart of the Milky Way. This fast-moving star may yield insights into the black hole parked at the center of our galaxy.
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The star's orbit appears to be closely linked to the black hole's spin—a characteristic of black holes astronomers have long struggled to measure.
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Astronomers have discovered the fastest known star in our galaxy, the Milky Way, orbiting the black hole at its center. The star, named S301, was detected with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO's VLTI) and reaches speeds of 25,000 km/s (15,500 miles per second) as it travels around the four-million-solar-mass black hole. It comes closer to it than any other star observed before, so close that it feels the effects of the black hole's rotation.
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A star is whipping around the Milky Way's central black hole incredibly fast, setting a record for the tightest orbit ever observed
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AIPROPX has consolidated 8 reports from 8 outlets into a single canonical entry on “Scientists find closest star to the Milky Way's central black hole.” The covered outlets are based across 2 regions — Other and US.
The earliest report in this entry came from Nature (Aug 19, 2026, 00:00 UTC); the most recent came from Scientific American (Aug 19, 2026, 16:40 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, 9 named entities are referenced by multiple outlets and the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “black hole”.
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