This image show stars orbiting very close to Sgr A* (centre), the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. They were obtained with the GRAVITY instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) at the end of March 2021.
Credit:
ESO/GRAVITY collaboration
About the Image
| Id: | eso2119b |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 14 December 2021, 16:00 |
| Related releases: | eso2119 |
| Size: | 1046 x 1046 px |
About the Object
Coordinates
| Position (RA): | 17 45 40.02 |
| Position (Dec): | -29° 0′ 26.70″ |
| Field of view: | 0.01 x 0.01 arcminutes |
| Orientation: | North is -0.0° left of vertical |
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