Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole sitting at the core of the Milky Way. It has a mass of 4.3 million times our Sun's and a radius of 12 million kilometers (7.4 million miles). It is not alone at the center of our galaxy; it is orbited by multiple stars and other peculiar objects. It had been suggested that the odder objects were doomed to be destroyed by its incredible gravitational pull, but new evidence suggests that things are a lot calmer. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Using the ERIS (Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph) at the Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team was able to track the orbit of some of the most intriguing objects that orbit Sagittarius A* . A very famous one is c

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