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Friday, 23 September 2022

In our galaxy, an unknown object orbits a black hole every 70 minutes

 Observations with the powerful ALMA radio telescope have revealed something unusual near the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole.

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious object in the center of the Milky Way that orbits a black hole every 70 minutes. This means that the object is moving at an incredible speed – 30% of the speed of light.

According to astronomers, the object orbiting the black hole is most likely a hot bubble of gas orbiting Sagittarius A* in an orbit comparable to that of the planet Mercury. The only difference is that it completes one revolution in about seventy minutes.

According to Maciek Wielgus of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, this mysterious object requires an incredible speed of almost 30% of the speed of light to make one revolution in seventy minutes....<<<Read More>>>....