Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

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This image indicates the location of Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole. The inset shows the newly discovered binary star D9. Credit: ESO/F. Peißker et al., S. Guisard ...

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Brian Welch is in the Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA, and at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA.

The lab released a new image of two galaxies merging, which teases the fate of the Milky Way. The galactic merger is located around 60 million light-years away from Earth. In the image ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: a binary star orbiting perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*. This stellar pair defies ...