{"id":203600,"date":"2025-01-12T11:04:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T17:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/first-ever-binary-star-found-near-our-galaxys-supermassive-black-hole"},"modified":"2025-01-12T11:04:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T17:04:48","slug":"first-ever-binary-star-found-near-our-galaxys-supermassive-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/first-ever-binary-star-found-near-our-galaxys-supermassive-black-hole","title":{"rendered":"First-ever Binary Star Found Near our Galaxy\u2019s Supermassive Black Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-ever-binary-star-found-near-our-galaxys-supermassive-black-hole.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. It is the first time a stellar pair has been found in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery, based on data collected by the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT), helps us understand how stars survive in environments with extreme gravity, and could pave the way for the detection of planets close to Sagittarius A*.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlack holes are not as destructive as we thought,\u201d says Florian Pei\u00dfker, a researcher at the University of Cologne, Germany, and lead author of the study published in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. It is the first time a stellar pair has been found in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole. The discovery, based on data collected by the European Southern Observatory\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}