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Galactic Center, PauRoche

Galactic Center

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Galactic Center, PauRoche

Galactic Center

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The Galactic Center (or Galactic Centre) is the rotational center of the Milky Way galaxy; it is a supermassive black hole of 4.100 ± 0.034 million solar masses which powers the compact radio source Sagittarius A*.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] It is 8.2 ± 0.4 kiloparsecs (26,700 ± 1,300 ly) away from Earth[8] in the direction of the constellations Sagittarius, Ophiuchus, and Scorpius where the Milky Way appears brightest.

There are around 10 million stars within one parsec of the Galactic Center, dominated by red giants, with a significant population of massive supergiants and Wolf-Rayet stars from star formation in the region around 1 million years ago.

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Galactic Center, PauRoche