How does the gravitational pull of the Galactic Center affect the orbits of stars in the galactic disk?

18.34, Thursday 15 Feb 2024 Link to this post. Hey I made an app! It's a green floating arrow that always points to the middle of the Milky Way. The centre of the Milky Way ... The centre of our Milky Way galaxy is located in the southern constellation Sagittarius (The Archer) and is "only" 26,000 light- ... Oct 17, 2002 ... ... centre of the Milky Way. figure 1. a, Diffraction-limited (56-mas FWHM) Ks-band (2.18 µm) image of the central 40″ of the Milky Way, obtained ... Feb 18, 2025 ... JWST reveals ongoing, rapid-fire light show. This artist's concept portrays the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. A galaxy is held together by gravity. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, also has a supermassive black hole in the middle. a diagram that shows that a planet is ... Oct 9, 2024 ... ... center of our Milky Way, Sagittarius A*. Full image and caption. Credit: Event Horizon Telescope. In the News. Our home galaxy, the Milky Way ... Jun 2, 2023 ... But Earth lies in one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way, known as the Orion Arm, far out from the centre of our home galaxy. And stars are ... May 17, 2021 ... An artist's impression of the thick disc in the middle of the Milky Way. Credit: ESO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Kornmesser/R. Hurt, CC BY 4.0. These studies suggest that the middle of the Milky Way galaxy contains a supermassive black hole (Sgr A*), a cluster of evolved and young stars, ... Jul 7, 2022 ... It was when we went to sleep and in the middle of the night my buddy @kochimachan woke me up and got me out of the tent in pitch darkness and ...