🔭 ~ Scientists discover 6 mysterious objects near supermassive black hole, unlike anything we’ve seen before ~ |

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Astronomers have found six strange objects orbiting the Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, which are unlike anything else in the galaxy.

They are so strange, in fact, that scientists have had to create a new class of celestial object for them, called ‘G objects.’ G1 and G2 were actually spotted in 2005 and 2012 respectively, but now a team of astronomers led by UCLA astronomer Anna Ciurlo have identified four more of these objects: G3, G4, G5 and G6.

They initially appeared to be giant gas clouds measuring roughly 100 AUs (9.3 billion miles) across. However, as the astronomers observed them over time, they realised that G1 and G2 weren't behaving like gas clouds at all, but actually more like stars, with orbital periods ranging from 100 years, to a whopping 1,600 years.(READ MORE)