Hdepohl/ESO At the centre of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* ... two thirds of the stars in the Milky Way are single stars, and the remainder are part of a ...

The black hole is huge—400 million times the mass of our sun—making it one of the most massive black holes discovered by Webb at this point in the universe's development.

At the centre of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* ... Observations show about two-thirds of the stars in the Milky Way are single stars, and the remainder are part of a ...

Scientists said they appear to orbit each other at just the right distance: If they were too spread out, the black hole’s gravity would rip them apart. Any closer and they’d merge into a single star.

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An international study has discovered a binary star orbiting near a supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. This is the first time a binary star has been found near a supermassive ...

ESO/F. Peißker et al Since stars typically form in pairs or triplets, rather than a single star, scientists deduced that binary star systems were orbiting near the black hole, Peissker said.

and the strong gravitational force of the nearby black hole will probably cause it to merge into a single star within just one million years, a very narrow timespan for such a young system.

Astronomers have discovered the first binary stars orbiting a supermassive black hole. The stellar pairing in question orbits the cosmic titan at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*.