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Fastest Known Star S301 Found on Tight Orbit Around Milky Way’s Black Hole

Its 8.7-year, highly eccentric path plunges so close that combined astrometric plus future spectroscopic monitoring could measure Sagittarius A*’s spin within about a decade.

New Models Make Earth’s Escape From Solar Engulfment Plausible

Study Says Earth Could Avoid Being Engulfed by Dying Sun

JWST Weighs Dormant Black Hole 10 Billion Light-Years From Earth

Gaia Maps 'Great Wave' Rolling Through the Milky Way's Outer Disk

VLT Spectra Reveal Gas Ring Around V Sagittae, Hinting at Likely Nova in Coming Years

Dual Lensing-Kinematics Study Confirms 36-Billion-Solar-Mass Black Hole in Cosmic Horseshoe