File:Weighing black holes with GRAVITY+ (ann24002a).jpg
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English: This artist’s impression imagines the swirling material around a distant black hole, not to scale, above a real image of ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) at Paranal in Chile. Using the VLTI, astronomers have, for the first time, made a direct measurement of the mass of a remote black hole, one so far away that light from its surroundings took 11 billion years to reach us. This distant measurement, presented in January 2024, was made possible thanks to the upgraded GRAVITY instrument, a part of a series of improvements on the VLTI called GRAVITY+. |
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Date | 29 January 2024 (upload date) | ||
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Author | ESO/M. Kornmesser, Y. Beletsky | ||
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Credit/Provider | ESO/M. Kornmesser, Y. Beletsky |
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JPEG file comment | This stunning panorama shows the Milky Way galaxy arching above the platform of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) on Cerro Paranal, Chile. At 2635 metres above sea level, Paranal Observatory is one of the very best astronomical observing sites in the world and is the flagship facility for European ground-based astronomy. The extent of our galaxy's cloudy and dusty structure can be seen in remarkable detail as a dim glowing band across the observation deck. From Earth, we see the Milky Way as a band across the sky because from our vantage point in one of its spiral arms we are seeing its disc-shaped structure edge-on as we peer towards its centre. Our galaxy is surrounded by several smaller satellite galaxies. Prominent here, to the left, are the Small Magellanic Cloud and Large Magellanic Cloud — dwarf galaxies which are members of our Local Group of galaxies. The VLT consists of four 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes (UTs) and four 1.8-metre Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) which can be used together to form the ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). Flickr user John Colosimo submitted this photograph to the Your ESO Pictures Flickr group. The Flickr group is regularly reviewed and the best photos are selected to be featured in our popular Picture of the Week series, or in our gallery. Link: This photograph on John Colosimo’s Flickr photostream |
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