Star Feels Spin of Milky Way’s Black Hole

Sky & Telescope reports that the fastest known star in our galaxy passes so close to Sagittarius A-star, the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center, that the black hole's rotation may tug it off course. That could enable a first-of-its-kind detection of the black hole's spin.

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