The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Isn’t As Destructive As Thought.

The center of the Milky Way is dominated by Sgr A-star, the supermassive black hole. The black hole makes the region an intense environment dominated by its powerful gravity and radiation from several sources, all related to the black hole. Can stars survive here? Image Credit: By NRAO/AUI/NSF and N.E. Kassim, Naval Research Laboratory - https://public.nrao.edu/gallery/labeled-map-of-our-galaxys-center/, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=83336763

New research and observations with the VLT’s ERIS instrument show that some stars are following predictable orbits near Sagitarrius A-star, the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole. This goes against the established idea that the black hole’s enormous gravity destroys stars and gas clouds. Even a binary star system in the region seems to go about its business unaffected.

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