Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery by finding a binary star system orbiting the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy. Led by Florian Peißker from the University of Cologne, Germany, the team identified the system, known as D9, using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. This discovery, published in Nature Communications, is significant not only for its rarity but also for its role in solving the co
Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery by finding a binary star system orbiting the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy. Led by Florian Peißker from the University of Cologne, Germany, the team identified the system, known as D9, using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. This discovery, published in Nature Communications, is significant not only for its rarity but also for its role in solving the co