Concept information
Terme préférentiel
galactic center
Définition
- The Galactic Center or Galactic Centre is the rotational center, the barycenter, of the Milky Way galaxy. Its central massive object is a supermassive black hole of about 4 million solar masses, which is called Sagittarius A*, a compact radio source which is almost exactly at the galactic rotational center. The Galactic Center is approximately 8 kiloparsecs (26,000 ly) away from Earth in the direction of the constellations Sagittarius, Ophiuchus, and Scorpius, where the Milky Way appears brightest, visually close to the Butterfly Cluster (M6) or the star Shaula, south to the Pipe Nebula. (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_Center)
Concept générique
Synonyme(s)
- galactic centre
Traductions
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/MDL-KCRG80WH-3
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