Synopsis of Omega Cen at different resolutions (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

Synopsis of Omega Cen at different resolutions

Caption

From left to right: The globular star cluster Omega Centauri as a whole, a zoomed-in version of the central area, and the region in the very center with the location of the mid-size black hole that was identified in the present study marked.

Credit

ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Häberle (MPIA)

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