File:Artist's impression of the orbits of stars close to the Galactic Centre (36477575555).jpg

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This artist's impression shows the orbits of three of the stars very close to the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. Analysis of data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope and other telescopes suggests that the orbits of these stars may show the subtle effects predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity. There are hints that the orbit of the star called S2 is deviating slightly from the path calculated using classical physics. The position of the supermassive black hole is marked with a white circle with a blue halo.

More information: https://www.eso.org/public/images/ann17051a/

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by European Southern Observatory at https://flickr.com/photos/51207680@N04/36477575555 (archive). It was reviewed on 7 November 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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