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Newly-Discovered Star Could Finally Reveal Spin of Our Galaxy’s Central Black Hole


Astronomers have spotted a faint, previously unknown star whipping around Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, on the tightest and most extreme orbit ever recorded.

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