There could be planets around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy, scientists say

A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole in this illustration. The stream of gas stretching to the right is what remains of a star that was pulled apart by the black hole. A cloud of hot plasma (gas atoms with their electrons stripped away) above the black hole is known as a corona. - (Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

There could be planets around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy – and we may be ready to find them, scientists say.

That hope comes after researchers found the first ever binary star near a supermassive black hole. That black hole happens to be Sagittarius A*, the one at the middle of the Milky Way.