Star spotted speeding near black hole at centre of Milky Way

Chile's Very Large Telescope tracks S2 star as it reaches mind-boggling speeds by supermassive black hole

Astronomers have observed a star speeding close to the massive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way for the first time.

The observations, made using the Very Large Telescope in Chile, tracked a star called S2 as it passed through the extreme gravitational field at the heart of our galaxy.