Astronomers identify mystery object at centre of galaxy

Astronomers have solved a mystery about a thin, bizarre object, known as G2, headed toward the monster black hole at the centre of our galaxy. While some scientists believed G2 was a cloud of hydrogen gas that the black hole would tear apart in a fiery show, the new study found it was more interesting. Instead, the team found it was a pair of binary stars. The pair had also been orbiting the black hole together and merged together into an extremely large star, cloaked in gas and dust. The black hole’s powerful gravitational field choreographed the event.