This video zooms into the Milky Way to the position of the stellar black hole "Gaia BH1", currently the black hole closest to Earth. After arriving at the location, we see the orbit of a Sun-like star around Gaia BH1.
The animation is part of an MPIA press release that is based on the article:
Kareem El-Badry et al., "A Sun-like star orbiting a black hole", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2022), doi: 10.1093/mnras/stac3140
Article at MNRAS: [ Ссылка ]
Preprint: [ Ссылка ]
MPIA press release: [ Ссылка ]
Credit: T. Müller (MPIA), PanSTARRS DR1 (K. C. Chambers et al. 2016), ESA/Gaia/DPAC (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)
