Is It A New Star, Planet X, The New Jerusalem, Or A Monstrous Mother Ship? Mysterious Object At Center Of Milky Way Is Racing Towards Earth And Actually INCREASING In Speed From 6.2 Million To 7.4 Million Miles Per Hour!
Towards the centre of our galaxy there is a strange object known as G2 that is drifting around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole. The origins of this ‘thing’ have remained somewhat a mystery and now a new theory has been proposed – it is a new star. New observations suggest it is too compact to be a clump of gas, and instead its more likely to be a stellar object. The new theory was proposed by scientists from the University of Cologne in Germany and published in the Astrophysical Journal. G2 has fascinated astronomers since it was first found in 2002 because it is not obvious where it has come from. Studying it could help scientists understand how supermassive black holes at the centre of galaxies draw in material and ‘feed’. Observations had suggested G2 was stretched, like a cloud – and may even have a companion, dubbed G1. But according to the team, the latest observations show that G2 remained intact as it made a recent close pass to the black hole. If it had been a cloud, it would have been spread apart by the black hole’s intense gravity. ‘For us, everything points at it being a young star,’ Dr Andreas Eckart, a co-author on the paper, told Space.com. Before 2014, the cloud was moving away from us, but now it is moving towards Earth – increasing in speed from 6.2 million to 7.4 million mph (10 million to 12 million km/h). (READ MORE)
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