Did you know there’s a star called S301 traveling at roughly 8% the speed of light? 🤯 Based on data featured by NASA APOD, astronomers tracked this extreme star orbiting Sagittarius A*—the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. It completes a full orbit in just 8.7 years and gets closer to the black hole than any star ever detected before, passing at a distance similar to Saturn orbiting our Sun! This tight cosmic dance is helping scientists directly test Einstein's Theory of General Relativity and measure the black hole's spin.#space #astronomy #blackhole #milkyway #science #nasa #apod #universe #stars #physics #cosmos #SagittariusA #spacediscovery #spacefacts #einstein #relativity #astrophysics #stargazing #sciencetok #stem #shorts
