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  "id": 1958306,
  "title": "Fastest known Milky Way star offers new test of supermassive black hole's spin",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/fastest-known-milky-way-star-offers-new-test-of-supermassive-black",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-19T15:00:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-08-fastest-milky-star-supermassive-black.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Astronomers have discovered the fastest known star in our galaxy, the Milky Way, orbiting the black hole at its center. The star, named S301, was detected with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO's VLTI) and reaches speeds of 25,000 km/s (15,500 miles per second) as it travels around the four-million-solar-mass black hole. It comes closer to it than any…",
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      {
        "outlet": "Science News",
        "title": "A record-breaking star could reveal how the Milky Way’s giant black hole spins",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/a-record-breaking-star-could-reveal-how-the-milky-ways-giant-black",
        "published": "2026-08-19T15:00:00.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "CityNews",
        "title": "Telescope spies the fastest star in the Milky Way zipping around a black hole",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/telescope-spies-the-fastest-star-in-the-milky-way-zipping-around-a",
        "published": "2026-08-19T15:01:56.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "Telescope spies the fastest star in the Milky Way zipping around a black hole",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/telescope-spies-the-fastest-star-in-the-milky-way-zipping-around-a-1962493",
        "published": "2026-08-19T15:01:56.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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