Away from us, I presume?
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Which would you prefer?
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Makes sense that it’s in the group of stars around Sagittarius A*! So cool!!
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Where is it going and why is it in such a hurry?
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It is in an orbit around the Milky Way central black hole, so it is going nowhere, but FAST :)
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If I did the math right, we will see this star live ~0.3% longer than "normal" as it orbits that BH. It appears to be a class B star, so that's maybe ~130,000 years longer.
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Oh man this is going to be cool for transients that don't appear to be close to their parent galaxy! 8% is really booking it and might explain some of those conundrums!
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So, for us curious laymen: How does this change our perception of objects with mass travelling at such speeds allowing future survivable FTL travel? Does it negate any previous limitations we assumed? Does it also fix any issues with mapping stars' positions that confused us?
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I don't if this is a silly question, but, this velocity is given in the earth rest frame or in our galaxy center rest frame? Or there is no difference?
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Usually a really important question, but in this case it doesn’t really make any difference! Our speed orbiting the Milky Way is around 200 km/s.
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