Fact Sheet
Heart of the Milky Way
Stars blaze around a supermassive black hole in this infrared view of the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, European astronomers have monitored the orbits of about 30 stars that orbit the black hole. Their observations provide new information about the black hole and conditions around it. [ESO/S. Gillessen et al.]
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