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Quoting: Chromatophore [ link to www.livescience.com (secure)]
Superhot blob of gas discovered orbiting Milky Way's black hole at 'mind-blowing' velocity
The gaseous blob's orbit around Sagittarius A* is equivalent in size to the orbit of Mercury around the sun. But the blazing blob completes a full rotation around the black hole every 70 minutes, compared with the 88 days it takes Mercury to travel the same distance, researchers wrote in a new paper published online Sept. 22 in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. [ link to www.livescience.com (secure)] The Milky Way is 'rippling' like a pond, and scientists may finally know why
In a new paper published Sept. 15 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, researchers explain how a nearby mini-galaxy — the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy — appears to have crashed through the Milky Way on at least two separate occasions, causing stars all around the galaxy to mysteriously oscillate at different speeds.
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