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Just sharing this from the ESOcast

ESOcast Episode 2: Unprecedented 16-year long study tracks stars orbiting Milky Way black hole

In this second episode of the ESOcast Dr. J takes us to the centre of the Milky Way to talk about a supermassive black hole there located. We will hear from two scientists involved in an unprecedented 16-year long study, which used several of ESO's flagship telescopes to produce the most detailed view ever of the surroundings of the monster lurking at our Galaxy's heart. How were the hidden secrets of this tumultuous region unravelled? Watch this ESOcast and find out.

Credit: Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser, Luis Calçada and Herbert Zodet. Host: Dr. J. Footage and photos: ESO/ R.Genzel and S. Gillessen. Web and technical support: Lars Holm Nielsen and Raquel Yumi Shida. Web Hosting: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ)

Credit: ESO/ R.Genzel and S. Gillessen

http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2008/phot-46-08.html#esocast2

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  • scripted much? lol

  • @1981z28camaro

    They're trying to appeal to the masses, give them a break :P

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  • 6666 VIEW :D

  • How COOL is that! Remember, that's ESO, not KECK.

  • the zoom in thing was craaaaaaaazy

  • its an animation of mathermatical permutations. its not observed. nothing happens in 50 days. does time dilation ring a bell? this is just another more complicated form of epicycles. i taught they stopped believing in epicycles long ago but i guess im wrong and that they just moved the concept from motion of planets to motion of stars. the stars are acutally moving with the galactic center and not around it. they move in clusters that folllow the spiral arms.

  • lol, true :-)

  • The picture of the stars moving looks like bacteria in a miscroscope. Maybe we're all in a miscrope.

  • Very interesting !!

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