A group of international researchers reported in the journal Nature the finding of four objects in orbits near a black hole in the center of the Milky Way.
According to the review, the bodies have different orbits, but they share a similar origin with those found earlier. The team believes it could be a gas and star hybrid.
The French and American scientists, led by Anna Ciurlo of the University of California, Los Angeles, were in charge of this recent discovery in conjunction with the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii.
In their publication they specify that these bodies recorded hydrogen emissions, which due to their velocities and their orbits are satellites of Sagittarius A * (a supermassive black hole), however, the indicators of their trajectories show a great variety.
“These objects look like gas but behave like stars“, summarized in a press release Andrea Ghez, from the Californian university.
This new class of objects, called G objects, looks compact most of the time and they stretch when their orbits, which range between 100 and 1,000 years, bring them closer to the black hole.
“The fact that there are now several of these objects observed near the black hole means that they are very likely part of a common population,” said co-author Randy Campbell, chief of scientific operations at the Keck Observatory, on the same note. Efe agency.
In their conclusions, astronomers indicate that objects would be the result of a highly inflamed product from the fusion of a pair of stars.
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