This gif show the orbits of stars around a black hole at the center of
our Milky Way galaxy. The orbits helped to uncover the existence of the black
hole, which sits around 25,000 light years away from Earth and is estimated to
have 4 million times the mass of our sun.
Source and further reading:
http://avl.ncsa.illinois.edu/astrophysics/galactic-center-orbital-models-and-inner-stellar-distributions
Source and further reading:
http://avl.ncsa.illinois.edu/astrophysics/galactic-center-orbital-models-and-inner-stellar-distributions
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