Zooming into the black hole at the centre of our galaxy

This zoom video sequence starts with a broad view of the Milky Way. We then dive into the dusty central region to take a much closer look. There, a swarm of stars orbit around an invisible object: a supermassive black hole, 4.3 million times that of the Sun. As we get closer to it, we see these stars, as observed by the NACO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (the last observation being from 2019). As we zoom in further, we see stars even closer to the black hole, observed with the GRAVITY instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometry in mid-2021.
More information and download options: www.eso.org/public/videos/eso2...
Credit:
ESO/GRAVITY collaboration/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS. Music: Johan Monel

[@der_dude1425]

I thought this was a reupload first but it contains updated data from 2021 of the stars´ trajectories around the black hole, impressive!

[@reducecotwo]

Charles Messier first discovered M87 in 1781, impressive indeed!

[@va_rio845]

@@reducecotwo Very impressive, though the video is about Sagittarius A*

[@scalgary4293]

Remember, this happened 26,000 years ago.

[@juanjosedelpinorivas7099]

Just imagine how close to that monster those stars are. The view of such a thing must be terrifying.

[@tonywells6990]

15 billion km. OK

[@vkobevk]

which view? a black hole not eating is just black in black background 😊

[@tonywells6990]

@@vkobevk If you were close to it you would see the distorted light of stars across it.

[@vkobevk]

@@tonywells6990 the horizon event size is only 44 million km diameter and the closest approach for the star is 15 billion km, so at this distance you dont notice so much the gravitational lens, except if another star close enough pass behind the black hole, but with naked eye you dont notice it and with telescope you only notice it if you look at good spot to give you a idea sun si 1.4 million km diameter and we are at 150 million from sun, so the ratio is 100 the ratio for 44 million km to 15 billion km is at least 300 is mean the black hole look like 3 time smaller from this star than the sun to us will you notice the sun if it is black like the night sky even if the has gravitational lens ?

[@tonywells6990]

@@vkobevk Thanks. Mis-interpreted the 'Neptune's Orbit' circle 🤣

[@YesNo-ub6ro]

the MILKY WAY is so beautiful ! We're extremely lucky to have a vision of our galaxy in profile !

[@runderdfrech3560]

+Space1101. No, it would be better, we had a view from above. Then nebulas wouldn't disrupt our view.

[@vkobevk]

i dont take you can see the galaxy face, except if you are in unlucky or lucky solar system being expelled from its galaxy

[@rafaelmaia8829]

Imagina viver numa época em que as galáxias tomam as decisões por você

[@Life_42]

Thank you so much for showing this to humanity

[@mlpadha303]

Wow. The movement of stars in the centre of milky way galaxy have also been captured with dates to ensure clarity in each possible way. Wonderful. Special salute to the scientists who captured these videos.

[@Ricmann3]

That's the guy!!! Making the whole galaxy dance around you... Goat Macro Really!!!

[@tejaswikmvicky7]

How Powerful Gravitational power Here in Center of Black Hole just imagine... 🤔It Just Holds millions of Star in one point...

[@rutvikpanchal5726]

It does not, it's the dark matter that holds galaxies together

[@urhere976]

@@rutvikpanchal5726 oh thats a contradiction? Arent you both be correct? Not sure.

[@deadlytsg2792]

@@urhere976 nahh it's only the dark matter that holds it together

[@Mr.Not_Sure]

The OP is technically correct. The few million stars (out of total ~200 billion stars in the Milky Way) in the Galactic center are affected largely by the SMBH's gravitational field.

[@crappymeal]

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[@muhammadikhwannurrosyidin8371]

1:03 seen if Sagittarius A* blinks, it happens because the starlight in the background becomes brighter due to gravitational lensing by Sagittarius A*, so it becomes brighter

[@yasirabbas2663]

This is how much distance our grandparents had to travel to go to school.

[@prateeksrivastava386]

it takes thousands of years to revolve around that black hole

[@PedroSilva_ytptbr]

Cool! Hopefully one day we will get one photo of it!

[@jammypockets606]

😂🤣 ...because it absorbs everything inc all electromagnetic waves, so you said the opposite of what's possible. Wonderful humour. You sir, are a card.

[@PedroSilva_ytptbr]

@@jammypockets606 yes, mate, isn't able to see a direct photo of a black hole, obviously, although an image of the accretion disc of it is clearly possible, as you, Mr. Smart, can see we have an image of M87 black hole. And the same scientists who worked on M87 black hole photo are working on the Sagittarius A* photo, but, obviously is so difficult to have this photo, considering the vast amount of "cosmic dust" in front of it

[@Rajkumar-ul7ko]

@@PedroSilva_ytptbr it's not possible until Any star trap into blackhole...

[@PedroSilva_ytptbr]

@@Rajkumar-ul7ko yeah, but considering that theese supermassive black holes are in the middle of the galaxies and "gluing" them together, they are always busy devouring stuff

[@tomekobi9602]

@@PedroSilva_ytptbr The "supermassive" black hole in the center of our galaxy is not glueing the galaxy together like our sun glues together our solar system. The mass of Sagittarius A is only 0,00029% of the mass of the milky way. That's way too small to hold it together. For comparison: Our Sun has more than 99% of the mass of our solar system.

[@carmensanfrancisco]

Maravilloso, Gracias!! Thank you so much!!!

[@franbosch13]

Fantastic and incredible

[@MrPablosek]

This is beautiful

[@antoniodecastrojunior6470]

Amazing!

[@bodubogaucho]

A cada dia que passa sabemos mais sobre este buraco negro massivo que está no centro da nossa galáxia. Para quem possa interessar, acredita-se que a maioria das galáxias contém um buraco negro em seu centro.

[@W1Account]

My God! the universe is beautiful 💙😊🥰

[@ravenedts]

Amazing 👍🏻💫

[@SancLunatic]

A black hole is just the universe being divided by zero

[@okkescelik4503]

Oh its not a reupload. Thanks for sharing ESO.

[@nikuSV]

Wow. This is impresive.

[@el_benja]

Viewing those stars orbits around the black hole with Neptune’s as reference is just staggering

[@mateusmoura5766]

THANK YOU! 👉😍👈

[@matgeezer2094]

Wicked. Really good imagery

[@oscarmachado3049]

I am here after the first picture of Sagittarius A* has been published. We are living in wonderful times.

[@thezwtxork8121]

Simply beautiful, he asked me if I open something that we have not observed and is something unique

[@bluesky-dx9vk]

amazing!

[@AjGamerTechs]

The sound is also sooooooo beautifuly fited with the video

[@DixxyV]

Didn't expect this to include the new data from 2021 too.

[@Warzak77]

one of the best scientific video on youtube

[@bradleecaslin597]

That’s too impressive 😀😀

[@Elvisredbaron]

Thank you for this update! Let's hope that we can get a photo of our monster very soon

[@DeepUndaInAmsterdam]

I believe they have the data but they're just stitching together. We're talking huge amounts of data that have to be phisically shipped from all over the world (Antarctica included, so they have short time windows to send them). I also hope we will get the results as soon as possible!

[@RigoFP]

You got it

[@XXXL007007]

good job

[@anuradhapriyankara5226]

We should seriously invest more to invent a warp drive or at least space travel at a significant fraction of speed of light. We already spent good money for wars and other political nonsense given we have a vast space to explore and the best we did was going to the moon 60 years back.

[@isaacmoore6803]

Well, there’s the Artemis program which is taking us back to the moon by 2025, which is progress. Also, James Webb launches in 8 days. But I do agree, we do need to put more money into space if we wanna get any farther than our solar system.

[@smbhquasar1527]

we should fund physics first.

[@haven216]

e = mc^2. A warp drive would require unfathomable amounts of energy. If it was something within our reach, many scientist efforts would go to that.

[@anuradhapriyankara5226]

@@haven216 We dont need to start big. We can start by sending a tiny stupid thing like a photon. It would probably need energy from few nuclear plants at once, still well worths it. Eventually someone would find a way to hack around energy barrier for larger things. Physics in areas like these a still kind of gray. There could be lot more changes in futute.

[@smbhquasar1527]

@@haven216 like it would need all the energies in our universe.

[@manuelreynoso8297]

great!!!

[@James_Blacsktar]

Hopefully JWST will provide higher quality image of it. I think Proxima Centauri is the first target of JWST.

[@rachkate76]

Wow ❤️

[@muhammadikhwannurrosyidin8371]

If the ELT is ready, the results will definitely be better than the VLT when photographing the center of the galaxy

[@KuroyamaFuyuki]

Cool

[@mikeyhamato2012]

Such a lonely and beautiful place at the same time.

[@briankleinschmidt3664]

Did you see me wave when it passed by?

[@RAdiumxd]

When will the image of blackhole of our galaxy will come out? Saggitarus A

Looks like the Jetsons opening.

[@billybobjohn8955]

For even a better view, can't wait for the 22. of december + 6 months for the origami to unfold. (JWST only 4 days left)

[@obhbeats]

Nothing is as magical as science

[@mariadaluzmoutinho5701]

E foi posicionar-se no centro da nossa galáxia?

[@sebieffer8595]

Imagine photograph Sag A* like we did with m87

[@lampado6670]

Q trilha sonora é essa, alguém sabe?

[@theonezenitram]

Where are we? Like… what is this place? Why is it like this? I have so many questions

[@hem97a]

Are these stars moving faster than light?

[@XenteBR]

Can you see a black hole? Wouldn’t the black hole absorb that light before it escapes?

[@narayani1505]

Why does that dot blink?

[@ziaulislam2462]

How can the stars moving so quickly

[@DeepUndaInAmsterdam]

Their gravitation is influenced by the pull of the Super Massive Black Hole located in the center of our Galaxy. It's gravitational force is so much that it can accelerate those huge stars like in the video.

[@baldiv403]

The Universe is our place.

[@quantumnature]

Studying those center stars you can clearly see that there is a playback which hinders you from seeing the real revolution of the stars. If you look close enough you'll notice that there are seven black spheres and each sphere has a set number of stars revolving around them. Sphere #1 has one star, sphere #2 has two stars and so on up to sphere #7 which has seven stars. This could represent the origin of the balls of the famous dragon ball z show. Maybe they know something we don't. Can we say that at the center of each galaxy there are seven spheres which dictates the order of the birth of stars? Food for thought.

[@scorpio-yt6qe6mr7z]

👍

[@montech5647]

S2 doesn't fall into the BH just because its elliptical trajectory.

[@SPIRITUAL-TREASURES]

Вражаюче видовище любий

[@Crackero.]

Today publicated the picture

[@SerPurple51]

Can anyone explain why S62 barley moves but S29 is orbiting rapidly?

[@Izz_1321]

Great observation! Who knows maybe s62 is farther than s29

[@SerPurple51]

@@Izz_1321 apparently it is. Its expected to orbit closer within the next few years, or so I've heard.

[@Izz_1321]

@@SerPurple51 the gravitational pull is probably equal to the black hole and its own or it hasn’t been in range of the gravitational pull of the black hole

[@NewWorldOrderx0x1]

If Its Concave Than This Is In The Center Of The Earth

[@simonpolle6126]

Anyone know the song?

[@sangmaithanh2605]

The track is Cocktail Allé by Johan B. Monell

[@dictator6643]

Wait for James web telescope

[@krish6926]

It's tripping , after smoking weed i saw this video

[@KartikPatel-nt4ff]

😅😅😅😅well information good 😅😅

[@latmusic5060]

Hello, I am a music producer and I would like to use your video to put my music on it, I ask for your permission, thank you

[@ranakhanofficial3590]

i 😮😮😮 confuse black hole

[@lightyear5890]

can you explain what would it would like to be if sbmh ton 618 were to be at centre of our galaxy

[@vijaystanleymed6335]

Watch Anton Petrov channel for that simulation..ton 618 displace of. sgr A* from our galactic centre

[@WSL_official2024]

meet Sagittarius a* :D

[@ahmetkuloglu9515]

Song name?

[@isaacmoore6803]

Diva Drive by Agoria

[@sangmaithanh2605]

Cocktail Allé by Johan Monel. You can listen the full track on his channel

[@kerryhopkins1740]

God's creation is truly amazing!

[@Chase_baker_1996]

Indeed unfortunately many christians believe it to be fake 😔😔😔😔

[@jukodebu]

what does this have to do with anything

[@realityvibes9639]

Only a One and the Only The Wise; The One who created all of this; The God.

[@mohamedboukabouz]

not enough.

[@user-qs7zw4io7l]

Black star's

[@macaion897]

どうやって見つけたんや

[@ESOobservatory]

Hi! You can find more details here: www.eso.org/public/news/eso2119/

[@MissileGuidance]

Anyone know what music this is?

[@blueguy420]

sagittarius a* sgr a*

[@belalmamdouh2295]

هو حقيقي سبحان الله العلي العظيم عالم الغيب والشهادة والذي جلاله بكل خلق عليما جل جلاله والذي علم الأنسان مالم يعلم جل شأنه وهو على كل شيء قدير

[@CristinaHerGar]

Pues me temo que es al revés. Bien cuesta saber las cosas y que son como son y no como se ha prejuzgado

[@CristinaHerGar]

@GRAVITY Las creencias son cosa de gustos. Respetables mientras respeten los tuyos y los de los demás..Y ya...

[@krishnakantabera7784]

Wanna die here

[@user-ib7th7tc1g]

لا اله الا الله

[@isaacmoore6803]

لا اله.

[@user-ib7th7tc1g]

@@isaacmoore6803 اذا فسر كيف ظهر الكون

[@baldiv403]

@@user-ib7th7tc1g الله كائن غريب خارج كوكب الأرض.

[@user-ib7th7tc1g]

@@baldiv403 فسر كيف ظهر الكون ولا تتفلسف

[@amzadhossain7181]

🌿🌾$__""Perfect_____!!!😎😡 Humm___!!!😎😝

[@Leo.Wirabuana]

this journey is way much better than just hop around on earth with carbon emission, useless activity.

[@HusSaiyan]

An-Nazi'at 79:27 ءَأَنتُمْ أَشَدُّ خَلْقًا أَمِ ٱلسَّمَآءُۚ بَنَىٰهَا Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? He [i.e., Allah] constructed it.

[@slayfriesslay]

The black hole is in the center of the Milky Way we know there is one....But Sagatarrius A is the one maybe Like the comment if it’s true comment No if it isn’t..

[@denidni-zino]

مذهل 😍

[@KartikPatel-nt4ff]

😅😅😅😅well ingormeti0n.Good show more 😅😅

[@lamdo3003]

As if any of you can prove that you are not looking at a mirror

[@lamdo3003]

You may see the future generations in hose reflections

[@akidchannel4827]

If you can zoom like this.. what a waste to send a satellite to the space. Just zoom you can see pluto.. mars.. venus.. much more cheaper

[@downcall]

It's true a telescope capable of going so Far and I couldn't ser the moon, fake

[@haven216]

What are you talking about?

[@cheegum6296]

God sent his only son to a planet 8000 miles across. Ironically the Romans already called all their important people Son of God so this was an amazing coincidence. Again on the same planet still 8000 miles across six hundred years later God told his loyal subjects to go circle a rock in a desert in Arabia which is now Saud's Arabia.

[@naomintaparaoplanoterrestre]

Fake news

[@coryleblanc]

obvious cgi, obvious waste of time

[@Warzak77]

you have hundreds of telescopes watching the same direction around the world, compares the datas and you can zoom like crazy

[@coryleblanc]

@@Warzak77 but this is blatant computer-generated imagery

[@kingbozo02]

@@coryleblanc You seriously don't understand anything about astronomy, cosmology, physics, logic or computers...but dont let that stop you...keep right on talking...

[@coryleblanc]

@@kingbozo02 light has no speed, i bet you think the james webb telescope is real but dont let that stop you from being a sheep keep right on talking

[@kingbozo02]

@@coryleblanc Let me guess...You got that "light has no speed" from a you tube video or a politicized podcast and you have no physics or math education beyond high school. You feel that qualifies you to sort through 8th grade level KZbin videos about astrophysics and judge what is true and what is false. Look up the Dunning-Kruger effect...You might see someone you recognize...Better yet, read a book