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Joel Kontinen
The centre
of our galaxy is a strange and chaotic place, but we may finally have an
explanation for three populations of
stars, all strikingly different from one another but with similar ages, and
researchers have come up the with a relatively simple model that can explain
all of them at once.
This is a Darwinian explanation of the origin of a galaxy and black holes and stars. The history of the Sagittarius A objects is based on fables and not objective science.
The closest
objects to Sagittarius A* are called S-stars: a spherical swarm of stars, many
of which are on elongated orbits that take them dangerously close to the black
hole. Their distribution also has a strange, unexplained gap called a zone of avoidance. The next layer contains clockwise
disc stars, which are massive stars that sit in a relatively orderly disc
outside the orbits of the S-stars. Finally, there are the off-disc stars, which
are on more scattered orbits, including some that appear to circle in the
opposite direction from the rest.
Source:
Leah Crane 2026 Hidden black hole could explain mystery at the heart of our galaxy | New Scientist 24 June
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