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"At the centre of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius
A*. It is roughly 27,000 light years from Earth and 23.5 million kilometres in
diameter.
In a world first, a team of astronomers led by Florian Peißker from the
University of Cologne, Germany, have discovered a binary star system orbiting
this black hole.
The system is known as D9. Its discovery, announced in a new paper published
today in
Nature Communications, sheds light on the extreme environment at the
centre of our Milky Way galaxy.
It also helps explain a long-running cosmic mystery about why some stars hurtle
through space much faster than others."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
