New Post: Stars Orbiting Milky Way Black Hole!
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The Josh Universe - Space Discord Server community announced a new post from joshtospace featuring a time-lapse sequence of stars orbiting the Milky Way's supermassive black hole. Captured over nearly two decades using the NACO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, this content highlights the incredible, long-term motion of objects near the galactic center. This post provides fascinating visual evidence of general relativity in action.
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This time-lapse sequence, captured with the NACO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, tracks the motion of stars over nearly two decades as they orbit the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
Credit: ESO/MPE
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