Zoom! The Super-Fast Star Racing Around a Giant Black Hole!
Imagine a car zooming around a super-duper strong magnet! That's kind of what's happening in space!
Hey, space explorers! Did you know there's a star in our very own Milky Way galaxy that's breaking all speed records? It's called S301, and it's like the Usain Bolt of stars, zipping around a super-heavy black hole at mind-boggling speeds!
This isn't just a cool space race, though. S301 passes super close to something called Sagittarius A* (say: Sag-ih-TAIR-ee-us A-star), which is a giant black hole at the very center of our galaxy. Black holes are like cosmic vacuum cleaners that suck up everything, even light! But this one is supermassive, meaning it's millions of times heavier than our Sun!
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Based on reporting by Wired Science.