Fast-moving stars around an intermediate-mass black hole in ω Centauri (VIDEO)

Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

Caption

This zoom video begins with an overview of the sky and ends with an image of the Hubble Space Telescope in the centre of Omega Centauri. Finally, the orbits of stars around the black hole are shown.

Credit

Video: T. Müller (MPIA/HdA), music: K. Jäger (MPIA)

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