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There are discoveries in astronomy that expand our knowledge of the Universe. And then there are discoveries that feel almost impossible to comprehend.
Astronomers have now identified a star racing around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way at roughly 25,000 kilometers per second — more than eight percent of the speed of light.
Its name is S301.
In the depths of the universe hundreds of millions of light-years away, astronomers have discovered an enormous black hole 30 billion times the mass of our sun.
In a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society on Wednesday, scientists said the so-called ultramassive black hole may be one of the biggest ever discovered.