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Module: Astrophysik: Schwarze Loecher

Sequence: Start

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Slide: Black Holes

Branching Point: Identification of Black Holes

Sequence: our own BH

Slide: The Milky Way Center

Slide: Movement of Stars in the Milky Way Centre

Slide: Kepler Ellipses around Sagittarius A*

Slide: S2, a Star in Narrow Orbit Around the Black Hole

Slide: S2 in its Orbit

Slide: Flares From Sagittarius A*

Sequence: sharp_ir

Slide: The NTT Telescope

Slide: The Speckle Camera SHARP I

Slide: Optical System of SHARP I

Slide: The Speckle Method

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Sequence: xmm_newton

Slide: XMM-Newton Satellite

Slide: Where is XMM-Newton now?

Slide: EPIC Camera

Slide: EPIC-pn CCD

Slide: Image Taken With XMM-Newton

Slide: Geminga, a Neutron Star

Slide: Geminga as a Magnet

Sequence: Biographie 31410: John Archibald Wheeler

Slide: J. A. Wheeler: The Inventor of the Name "Black Hole"

Sequence: Kinder: Schwarze Lcher

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Movement of Stars in the Milky Way Centre

This exceptional movie is obtained superposing images collected between 1992 and 2002 by Speckle-Camera Sharp I on New Technology Telescope, NTT, at La Silla Observatory, in Chile. Motions of stars reveal a very massive object in the center of the field: the invisible object is the super massive black hole candidate Sagittarius A*. Let's zoom in.

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