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Stars orbiting Milky Way's central black hole
ilbasso
post Dec 11 2008, 02:53 PM
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This ESO movie shows the location of Sagittarius A and includes time lapse images of stars orbiting the Milky Way's central black hole as observed in the near-infrared with the NACO on ESO's Very Large Telescope. By observing the motions of the central stars over 16 years, astronomers deduced the mass of the black hole at 4 million times that of our Sun.

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- ilbasso   Stars orbiting Milky Way's central black hole   Dec 11 2008, 02:53 PM
- - dilo   Really impressive zoom and star motion...   Dec 11 2008, 09:31 PM

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