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Astronomers discovered S301, the fastest and closest known star to Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central black hole. Traveling at 25,000 km per second and completing an orbit every 8.7 years, S301 could help scientists directly measure the black hole's spin by 2036, testing Einstein's theory of relativity.
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