Scientists have discovered strange objects orbiting our galaxy’s black hole
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Scientists have discovered strange objects orbiting our galaxy's black hole
Every major galaxy is home to a supermassive black hole, and our own Milky Way is no exception. Astronomers recently found something unexpected near this massive object - 4 mysterious objects, each similar to a pair of bizarre bodies spotted in recent years in this same region of the galaxy.
Our local supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*, pronounced Sag A star), contains roughly 4 million times as much mass as the Sun. Not far from this black hole, members of a newly-discovered class of objects are caught in a gravitational dance with a massive body.
These G objects look like gas but behave like stars, as they complete their 100- to 1000-year-long orbits of Sgr A*. While they appear compact most of the time, they stretch out as they come closer to the black hole near the core of our galaxy.
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G, this is an interesting finding…
The first G object was discovered in 2005 and was labeled G1. Seven years later, a second body was found, and given the moniker G2. The four newly-discovered objects are named G3 through G6. While G1 and G2 have the orbits similar to each other, the newly-found bodies