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The image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope.

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have identified a neutron star spinning at a mind-boggling rate of 716 rotations per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning objects ever observed.

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New research in our Milky Way has revealed a neutron star that rotates around its axis at an extremely high speed. It spins 716 times per second, making it one of the fastest-spinning objects ever ...

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The image shows the supermassive black hole that lies at the heart of our galaxy about 26,000 light-years away.