Just days ago, researchers at the University of Cologne and Masaryk University discovered the SR716, the fastest star ever found. Five different telescopes, called NIR2, OSIRIS, SINFONI, NACO, and GRAVITY, were combined to sight the star.
The SR716 orbits a black hole in the middle the Milky Way at the fastest rate researchers have ever seen. The star covers the distance of its 23.5 million kilometer orbit in just four years.
This star is traveling at roughly 18 million miles per hour, or 5,000 miles per second!
This star does not orbit by itself. It belongs to a pack of 100 or more stars called Sagittarius A.
They orbit a dying star at a distance of 100 astronomical units. Apparently, this isn’t that far to scientists and astronauts, even though each unit is equivalent to 149,597,870 kilometers!
The SR716 orbits a black hole in the middle the Milky Way at the fastest rate researchers have ever seen. The star covers the distance of its 23.5 million kilometer orbit in just four years.
This star is traveling at roughly 18 million miles per hour, or 5,000 miles per second!
This star does not orbit by itself. It belongs to a pack of 100 or more stars called Sagittarius A.
They orbit a dying star at a distance of 100 astronomical units. Apparently, this isn’t that far to scientists and astronauts, even though each unit is equivalent to 149,597,870 kilometers!
