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A newly discovered star is so close to the center of our galaxy’s supermassive black hole that it completes an orbit in just four years. It is the shortest orbit for any of the stars around Sagittarius A*. This is an oval-shaped journey around a black hole that takes the star to an orbital speed of more than 2.5 percent of the speed of light. This discovery adds exciting new information about the strange dynamics of the center of the Milky Way. Although the center of our galaxy is quite quiet compared to other galaxies, the environment around Sgr A* is an extreme place. Black holes are monsters, which have a mass about 4 million times the mass of the Sun. Before astronomers confirmed its existence with live images, scientists deduced its existence and calculated its mass based on the star locked in orbit around Sgr A*. The star, called S2, is just one of a group of stars known as S-stars, which follow a long, sharp elliptical orbit around Sgr A*, with a black hole at one end of the

A newly discovered star, now called S4716, is moving at 5,000 miles (8,000 km) per second around the black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, space.com reported. The vast expanse of our universe means that astronomers are always discovering something they’ve never seen before. Earlier this week, astronomers spotted two asteroids the size of a bus heading for Earth, which will pass just a quarter of the distance that separates the Moon from us. In addition to asteroids, our galaxy is also attracting the attention of astronomers looking for signs of other planets that support life. Right at the center of the Milky Way, there is a supermassive black hole dubbed Sagittarius A* or Sgr A* and S4716 orbits this black hole at high speed. What we know about S4716 From observations made so far, we know that at 5,000 miles (8,000 km) per second or 18 million miles (29 million km) per hour, S4716 is the fastest star orbiting Sgr A*. It completes an orbit around a black hole with