If all of space was involved in a dance as celestial bodies moved around, this pair of dancing partners would really make a special sight. Astronomers at the Michigan State University have found a star that moves around a black hole at the really fast pace of twice an hour.

The unusual dance of the companion star and black hole have been sighted and confirmed by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA’s NuSTAR and the Australia Telescope Compact Array. Arash Bahramian, from University of Alberta, said that this white dwarf is so close to the black hole that material is being pulled away from the star and dumped onto a disk of matter around the black hole before falling in.

Luckily for this star, Bahramian does’t think it will follow this path into oblivion, but instead will stay in orbit. While Bahramian may wish the white dwarf star safe from being sucked into the black hole, others in the astronomy community are not sure that it will continue to whip around the black hole for eternity.

There is a science project that suggests that eventually the dancing star will lose enough mass that it no longer resists the pull of the black hole. How long it will be before that happens is pure speculation. Till then we get to see these celestial dancing partners give us an unusual show.