This high-speed star is whipping around the black hole in the middle of our galaxy : NPR
This image plots the orbital paths of all known stars orbiting the enormous black hole at the center of the Milky Way. One of the stars, S301, comes very close to the black hole. At its closest point, the star travels at more than 15,000 miles per second. Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics hide … Read more