{"id":4889,"date":"2024-12-18T07:02:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T06:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/?p=4889"},"modified":"2025-01-10T09:24:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T08:24:48","slug":"astronomers-take-the-first-close-up-picture-of-a-star-outside-our-galaxy-eso-press-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/astronomers-take-the-first-close-up-picture-of-a-star-outside-our-galaxy-eso-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"First ever binary star found near our galaxy\u2019s supermassive black hole &#8211; ESO Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It is the first time a stellar pair has been found in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole. The discovery, based on data collected by the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT), helps us understand how stars survive in environments with extreme gravity, and could pave the way for the detection of planets close to Sagittarius A*. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/unitedkingdom\/news\/eso2418\/?lang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to read the news on ESO<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1259\" height=\"721\" src=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/eso2818-ENG.png\" alt=\"Location of binary star D9 in the Milky Way - Credit: ESO2418 - 18\/11\/2024\" class=\"wp-image-4993\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Location of binary star D9 in the Milky Way &#8211; Credit: ESO2418 &#8211; 18\/11\/2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It is the first time a stellar pair has been found in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole. The discovery, based on data collected by the European Southern Observatory\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[428,390,430],"class_list":["post-4889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-scientific-news","tag-anna-wolter-2","tag-eso-2","tag-sagittarius-a-2"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/eso2818.png",1259,721,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/eso2818.png",150,86,false],"medium":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/eso2818.png",300,172,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/eso2818.png",768,440,false],"large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/eso2818.png",1024,586,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/eso2818.png",1259,721,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/eso2818.png",1259,721,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It is the first time a stellar pair has been found in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole. The discovery, based on data collected by the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT), helps us understand how stars survive in environments with extreme gravity, and could pave the way for the detection of planets close to Sagittarius A*. Click here to read the news on ESO. Location of binary star D9 in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/scientific-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Scientific news<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Maria Rosa Panzera","url":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/author\/maria-rosa-panzera\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4889"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4995,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions\/4995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}