The Fastest Star In The Galaxy!

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S2 is a codename given to a blue star 8000 parsecs away, bright enough to be picked out orbiting the black hole at the core of the galaxy. Over the last few months the best telescopes in the world have been focussed on it, watching it slingshot by the black hole at almost 9000km/sec.



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