20-year time lapse of stars being flung around a black hole.
In the comments: The closest one, S4716 is moving at about 8% speed of light at a distance of about12.6 AU at perigee to the black hole. It has an orbital period of 4 years.
Our galaxy's center features the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, as massive as 4 million suns. It has hundreds of stars pulled closely into its orbit, experiencing a gravitational boost from this proximity. The fastest of these stars, S4714, orbits around Sgr A* at more than 8% of light speed, or 15,000 miles per second, faster than any other known star.
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