{"id":773128,"date":"2023-11-14T12:33:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T16:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=773128"},"modified":"2023-11-14T12:33:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T16:33:50","slug":"we-can-only-predict-star-motion-in-the-milky-ways-heart-for-462-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=773128","title":{"rendered":"We can only predict star motion in the Milky Way\u2019s heart for 462 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">The centre of the Milky Way is surprisingly chaotic<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Guillem Lopez Borras\/Alamy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Near the centre of the galaxy, chaos rules. The stars that orbit close to the Milky Way\u2019s central supermassive black hole, called S-stars, are so chaotic that our best simulations of their motions fall apart in just 462 years, making it impossible to predict their locations after that.<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, it has been difficult to calculate the motions of many objects orbiting near one another because of ever-present rounding errors; long decimals involved in the calculations must be cut off somewhere, which \u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2392977-we-can-only-predict-star-motion-in-the-milky-ways-heart-for-462-years\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The centre of the Milky Way is surprisingly chaotic Guillem Lopez Borras\/Alamy Near the centre of the galaxy, chaos rules. The stars that orbit close to the Milky Way\u2019s central&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":773129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=773128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/773129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}