The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope made this startling find.
A supermassive black hole dubbed Sagittarius A* lurks at the heart of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The region surrounding this cosmic behemoth is a place of cosmic extremes. For the first time, it detected a pair of stars close to this supermassive black hole .
This newly discovered binary star has been dubbed D9. It is a young star system — roughly 2.7 million years old. Scientists previously believed that the extreme conditions near supermassive black holes inhibited star formation. The discovery of D9 suggests that star formation can occur even in extreme environments.
Among the most puzzling objects in this cluster are the G objects, which exhibit stellar behavior but appear as gaseous clouds.
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