Tuesday 3 July 2012

Zoom in to the Milky Way’s centre

Zoom in to the Milky Way’s centre until you see a close-up view of objects orbiting the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy.


This zoom sequence stars with a view of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, then zooms in towards the crowded center of the galaxy, in the direction of the constellation of Sagittarius the Archer. Then the scene shifts to an infrared view, which lets us see see through the dusty clouds in this direction and get a close-up view of objects orbiting the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy. The final views show the motion of a newly discovered gas cloud that is falling rapidly towards the central black hole.

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