Wide-field view around the BH3 black hole
eso_eso2408c April 16th, 2024
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: D. De Martin.
This image shows a wide-field view of the area around Gaia BH3, the most massive stellar black hole in our galaxy. The black hole itself is not visible here, but the star that orbits around it can be seen right at the centre of this image, created from photographs of the Digitized Sky Survey 2.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2408c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso2408c
- Subject Category
- B.3.1.10
- Subject Name
- Gaia BH3
- Credits
- ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: D. De Martin.
- Release Date
- 2024-04-16T09:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2408c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
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- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 15732.0, 14657.0
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- https://www.eso.org
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso2408c
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso2408c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-04-11T14:48:18+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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