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Telescope detects Milky Way's fastest star
Astronomers have detected the fastest known star in the Milky Way galaxy, orbiting the supermassive black hole at the galaxy's center at speeds reaching up to 25,000 kilometers per second, which is about 100,000 times faster than commercial airplanes. The star completes an orbit around the black hole in just 8.7 years, on a path ten times closer than the previous star, harnessing the black hole's gravitational pull to accelerate without falling in. The star was discovered using data from the European Southern Observatory's space telescope in Chile, and the study's results were published in the journal "Nature." The star is situated very close to the black hole and is among the fastest stars ever observed in that region.
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