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Sgr A*
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English: ESO’s exquisitely sensitive GRAVITY instrument has added further evidence to the long-standing assumption that a supermassive black hole lurks in the centre of the Milky Way. New observations show clumps of gas swirling around at about 30% of the speed of light on a circular orbit just outside a four million solar mass black hole — the first time material has been observed orbiting close to the point of no return, and the most detailed observations yet of material orbiting this close to a black hole.
This video starts with a wide view of the Milky Way and then zooms into a visualization of data from simulations of orbital motions of gas swirling around at about 30% of the speed of light on a circular orbit around the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. Credit: ESO/Gravity Consortium/L. Calçada/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), Music: Johan B. Monell |
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| Source | https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1835c/ |
| Author | European Southern Observatory (ESO) |
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