At the heart of the Milky Way lies a supermassive black hole, named Sagittarius A*,around which there are some mysterious planets. Now a team of experts believe they may have discovered where one of those stars, S0-6, came from and they say it’s likely an alien.
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00:00At the heart of the Milky Way lies a supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A around which there
00:09are some mysterious stars. They're a bit of an enigma to astronomers as our galactic center
00:14is believed to be too chaotic for star formation. Now a team of experts believe they may have
00:19discovered where one of those stars named S0-6 came from and they say it's likely an alien.
00:25Over the last 8 years a team from Miyagi University of Education in Japan have been tracking the star
00:30finding that not only is it accelerating but it also orbits Sagittarius A extremely closely
00:36only .04 light years away. During their observations they were also able to determine S0-6's chemical
00:42composition by the light wavelengths it releases finding it's extremely vacant of heavy elements
00:48meaning it's likely 10 billion years old. The amounts of those lighter elements are also more
00:52similar to those that exist in dwarf galaxies specifically those that orbit our own meaning
00:57it's more than likely that while the Milky Way was gobbling those smaller galaxies one of
01:01those stars ended up getting drawn into orbit around Sagittarius A with the researchers now
01:06calling S0-6 an extra galactic star.