Astronomers have discovered the fastest star ever seen in our galaxy, zipping around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole at breakneck speed—completing an orbit every 8.7 years while hovering ten times closer than any previous record holder. Detected by the Very Large Telescope in Chile’s Atacama Desert, this stellar speedster is being pulled and twisted by the black hole’s gravity and spin, offering a rare window into extreme cosmic environments. With new tech revealing fainter stars once hidden, scientists suspect even faster stars may lurk—and this discovery marks just the start of unraveling the mysteries of our galaxy’s heart.
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