If Usain Bolt were a star of the astronomical type he’d be star S0-102,
which sprints around the Milky Way’s central black hole with the fastest time
yet. It takes just 11.5 years for S0-102 to orbit the supermassive cosmic
drain, astronomers report in the Oct. 5 Science.
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