Black hole orbit in the Milky Way (Sun in yellow)
This animation (artist's impression) shows an oblique view of our Milky Way galaxy. The black-hole system GRO J1655-40 is streaking through space at a rate of 400 000 kilometres per hour - 4 times faster than the average velocity of the stars in the galactic neighbourhood. The yellow star is our Sun.
Credit:European Space Agency, NASA and Felix Mirabel (the French Atomic Energy Commission & the Institute for Astronomy and Space Physics/Conicet of Argentina)
About the Video
| Id: | heic0211a |
| Release date: | 18 November 2002, 15:00 |
| Related releases: | heic0211 |
| Duration: | 24 s |
| Frame rate: | 30 fps |
About the Object
| Category: | 3D Animations Quasars and Black Holes |
