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Science

The Milky Way's Fastest Star Could Expose Our Black Hole's Spin

Scientific American · August 19, 2026 at 12:40 PM

The star S301 swoops so close to our galaxy's supermassive black hole that it could, for the first time ever, reveal that dark behemoth's rotation

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