{"id":23764,"date":"2022-07-28T09:32:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T13:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=23764"},"modified":"2022-07-22T09:36:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T13:36:24","slug":"star-discovered-orbiting-milky-ways-supermassive-black-hole-every-4-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=23764","title":{"rendered":"Star discovered orbiting Milky Way’s supermassive black hole every 4 years"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n
\n
<\/div>\n
\n

Star discovered orbiting Milky Way’s supermassive black hole every 4 years<\/h1>\n
The discovery should help astronomers better understand the extreme conditions at the center of our galaxy and what can survive there.<\/em><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
By The Physics arXiv Blog<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 Published: Thursday, July 14, 2022<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\"blackhole\"<\/a>
SquareMotion\/Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n

Astronomers have discovered a star that orbits the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy every four years. That\u2019s the shortest orbit ever observed around a supermassive black hole.<\/p>\n

The newly discovered star, called S4716, is about four times more massive than our Sun and twice as hot. It survives extraordinary conditions, orbiting this black hole at a distance as close as 100 astronomical units, less than three times the distance of Pluto from the Sun.<\/p>\n

The discovery should help astrophysicists better understand conditions near this gravitational behemoth at the center of the Milky Way and to better calculate its mass and radius.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

READ MORE: https:\/\/astronomy.com\/news\/2022\/07\/star-discovered-orbiting-milky-ways-supermassive-black-hole-every-4-years<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Star discovered orbiting Milky Way’s supermassive black hole every 4 years The discovery should help astronomers better understand the extreme conditions at the center of our galaxy and what can survive there. By The Physics arXiv Blog \u00a0|\u00a0 Published: Thursday, July 14, 2022 Astronomers have discovered a star that orbits the supermassive black hole at … Continue reading Star discovered orbiting Milky Way’s supermassive black hole every 4 years<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[133],"tags":[369,1682],"class_list":["post-23764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-news","tag-black-hole","tag-galaxy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23765,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23764\/revisions\/23765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}