Lone black hole passes in front of star (ground-based view)
esahubble_opo0003c January 13th, 2000
Credit: NOAO, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
Two images of a crowded starfield as seen through a ground-based telescope show the subtle brightening of a star due to the effect of gravitational microlensing, where an invisible but massive foreground object passes in front of the star and amplifies its light.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0003c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo0003c
- Subject Category
- B.6.2.1
- Subject Name
- Black Holes, Milky Way
- Credits
- NOAO, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
- Release Date
- 2000-01-13T18:30:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0003c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- T
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 271.260274353, -27.7046814547
- Reference Dimension
- 67.0, 67.0
- Reference Pixel
- 33.5, 33.5
- Scale
- -0.000111439352668, 0.000111439352668
- Rotation
- -0.44000000000004957
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- opo0003c
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0003c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:15:45+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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