A star is orbiting the Milky Way's black hole at 18 million miles an hour - Interesting Engineering

The discovery will help us understand more about the evolution of our galaxy and learn about fast-moving central stars.

A recently discovered star, now designated S4716, is traveling at the mind-boggling speed of 5,000 miles (8,000 km) per second around the black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, Space.… [+4038 chars]

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