by Diana Morley
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Astronomers studying the murky center of our Milky Way Galaxy have discovered something they never expected: a pair of young stars orbiting each other near the supermassive black hole that is our Galaxy’s dark heart. The observation—reported today in Nature Communications—comes as a surprise because astrophysicists had thought the black hole’s intense gravity would either rip the stars in such a pair apart or squash them together. But the new object, dubbed D9, shows that such a “binary” can survive, at least briefly, near the black hole, and it could help explain other mysterious objects in the vicinity.—Science, December 17, 2024 |
Black holes,
viewed as enormous
greedy suckers
in galaxy centers
swallowing gas, dust,
anything coming
their way, and
two stars just sighted
whipping around
closer to the Milky Way’s
own black hole
than any seen before,
testing laws of physics
like teenagers
testing sass for the line
just under the nose
of consequences.
Diana Morley publishes poetry online (The New Verse News, The Ravens Perch, and Exterminating Angel Press), and in County Lines, a literary journal. She's published a chapbook, poetry collection, documentary of photos and poems, and most receently, a short story.
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