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Telescope spies the fastest star in the Milky Way zipping around a black hole
1+ hour, 47+ min ago (255+ words) The star is zipping around the black hole, reaching speeds of about 15,534 miles per second (25,000 kilometers per second). That’s 100,000 times faster than a commercial plane. “That star is really, extremely fast,” said astronomer Stefan Gillessen with the Max Planck Institute…...
Ancient Milky Way Merger
1+ hour, 33+ min ago (165+ words) miragenews.com This artist's concept, released on Aug. 17, 2026, depicts a collision between our Milky Way galaxy and a dwarf galaxy known as LKH that happened about 12 billion years ago. A study of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, recently published…...
A footnote about black holes set Garima Rajguru on a path across continents
3+ hour, 35+ min ago (604+ words) When Garima Rajguru was 8 or 9, a picture book about space had a footnote about black holes. “The only thing it said was that black holes are regions in space from where even light cannot escape,” she recalled. The explanation was…...
UF physicists part of effort toward first-ever detection of dark matter
1+ hour, 23+ min ago (185+ words) Home All News UF physicists part of effort toward first-ever detection of dark matter The SuperCDMS experiment is ready to take data with the cylindrical aluminum radon barrier installed around the shielded cryogenic SNOBOX containing the detectors. Despite estimating that…...
Astronomers Find Fastest-Known Star Racing Around Milky Way's Central Black Hole — BigGo Finance
2+ hour, 28+ min ago (339+ words) Scientists have detected the fastest-known star in the universe, a stellar speedster locked in an extreme orbit around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way that could finally allow astronomers to measure the spin of these…...
Milky Way's fastest star orbits our supermassive black hole so closely it feels its spin
3+ hour, 9+ min ago (610+ words) “Worldwide, Paranal is the only place where you can do this type of observations because no other observatory in the world has four 8-metre telescopes that can act together as an interferometer,” says co-author Frank Eisenhauer, GRAVITY+ Principal Investigator and…...
The Milky Way's Fastest Star Could Expose Our Black Hole's Spin
1+ hour, 29+ min ago (260+ words) The star S301 swoops so close to our galaxy's supermassive black hole that it could, for the first time ever, reveal that dark behemoth's rotation By Sanidhya Sharma edited by Lee Billings Nothing can escape a black hole—except, potentially, its…...
A black hole's spin could finally be measured by a high-speed star
1+ hour, 58+ min ago (32+ words) Star orbiting close to Sagittarius A* could reveal its spin — plus, how exoskeletons might change the way humans move. Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 19 August 2026...
Fastest-known star zooms under Milky Way black hole’s influence
2+ hour, 51+ min ago (312+ words) WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Scientists have detected the fastest-known star, a stellar speedster that is zooming around the supermassive black hole residing at the center of our galaxy and might hold the key to measuring the spin of this celestial beast…...
Scientists find closest star to the Milky Way's central black hole
2+ hour, 13+ min ago (179+ words) Star, moving at 8% the speed of light, may let us measure the black hole’s rotation. So, without a new discovery, we’d either need to up our imaging game in order to get finer-scaled information about the orbits of the stars…...