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    Observed orbits of stars near the dark compact object at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy: still frame from an animation. The star icon indicates the radio source Sagittarius A* at the Galactic core; orbital dynamics place its mass at 2.6 million Solar masses. Animation created by Prof. Andrea Ghez and her research team at UCLA, from data sets obtained with the W. M. Keck Telescopes: http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~ghezgroup/gc/

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    current09:19, 25 November 2007Thumbnail for version as of 09:19, 25 November 2007751 × 750 (35 KB)Teviet Creighton (Talk | contribs)Observed orbits of stars near the dark compact object at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy: still frame from an [http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~ghezgroup/gc/images/2006orbits_animfull.gif animation]. The star icon indicates the radio source Sagittarius A* a

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