The Galaxy’s Fastest Star Could Reveal the Secrets of a Supermassive Black Hole

A team of astronomers has just detected the fastest star in the galaxy. Its anomalous speed has a more unsettling explanation: It orbits Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, the mass of which is equivalent to four million times that of the Sun. S301, as astronomers have named … The post The Galaxy’s Fastest Star Could Reveal the Secrets of a Supermassive…