Researchers announced the discovery of S301, the fastest known star in the Milky Way. The star runs 25,000 kilometers per second, which is about 100,000 times the flight speed of a commercial airliner. According to a research report published in the British “Nature” magazine on the 19th, S301 is about 1.5 times the mass of the Sun and 5 times brighter than the Sun. It runs around the black hole Sagittarius A* speed along an elliptical orbit. It only takes 8.7 years to orbit one week.

Researchers announced the discovery of S301, the fastest known star in the Milky Way. The star runs 25,000 kilometers per second, which is about 100,000 times the flight speed of a commercial airliner. According to a research report published in the British “Nature” magazine on the 19th, S301 is about 1.5 times the mass of the Sun and 5 times brighter than the Sun. It runs around the black hole Sagittarius A* speed along an elliptical orbit. It only takes 8.7 years to orbit one week.