And Now, a Picture of the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole (VIDEO)
This is an image of the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
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Image of Sgr A* from EHT collaboration
Event Horizon Telescope collaboration: ve42.coAnimations from The Relativistic Astrophysics group, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. Massive thanks to Prof. Luciano Rezzolla, Dr Christian Fromm and Dr Alejandro Cruz-Osorio.
A huge thanks to Prof. Peter Tuthill and Dr Manisha Caleb for feedback on earlier versions of this video and helping explain VLBI.
Great video by Thatcher Chamberlin about VLBI here – YouTube
Animations and simulations with English text:
L. R. Weih & L. Rezzolla (Goethe University Frankfurt)
YouTubeVideo of stars going around Sgr A* from European Southern Observatory
eso.orgVideo zooming into the center of our galaxy from European Southern Observatory
YouTubeVideo of observation of M87 courtesy of:
C. M. Fromm, Y. Mizuno & L. Rezzolla (Goethe University Frankfurt)
YouTubeVideo of observation of SgrA* courtesy of
C. M. Fromm, Y. Mizuno & L. Rezzolla (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Z. Younsi (University College London)
YouTubeVideo of telescopes in the array 2017:
C. M. Fromm & L. Rezzolla (Goethe University Frankfurt)
YouTubeAnimations and simulations (no text):
L. R. Weih & L. Rezzolla (Goethe University Frankfurt)
YouTube
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Written by Derek Muller
Animation by Ivy Tello, Mike Radjabov, Maria Raykova
Filmed by Petr Lebedev
