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most citedA geometric distance measurement to the Galactic Center black hole with 0.3% uncertainty

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astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Photometric Constraints on Intermediate-mass Black Holes in the Galactic Centre

Tamojeet Roychowdhury, Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg, Joseph M. Michail +14

JWST/MIRI observations can place photometric limits on the presence of an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) near the Galactic Centre. The stellar complex IRS 13E, a co-moving con…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 551 cited

Detection of the Schwarzschild precession in the orbit of the star S2 near the Galactic centre massive black hole

GRAVITY Collaboration, R. Abuter, A. Amorim +53

The star S2 orbiting the compact radio source Sgr A* is a precision probe of the gravitational field around the closest massive black hole (candidate). Over the last 2.7 decades we…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 826 cited

A geometric distance measurement to the Galactic Center black hole with 0.3% uncertainty

R. Abuter, A. Amorim, M. Bauboeck +51

We present a 0.16% precise and 0.27% accurate determination of R0, the distance to the Galactic Center. Our measurement uses the star S2 on its 16-year orbit around the massive bla…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 44 cited

Spectroscopic Detection of a Cusp of Late-type Stars around the Central Black Hole in the Milky Way

M. Habibi, S. Gillessen, O. Pfuhl +12

In a dynamically relaxed cluster around a massive black hole a dense stellar cusp of old stars is expected to form. Previous observations showed a relative paucity of red giant sta…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 5 cited

Detection of a drag force in G2's orbit: Measuring the density of the accretion flow onto Sgr A* at 1000 Schwarzschild radii

S. Gillessen, P. M. Plewa, F. Widmann +14

The Galactic Center black hole Sgr A* is the archetypical example of an underfed massive black hole. The extremely low accretion rate can be understood in radiatively inefficient a…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 38 cited

A Detection of Sgr A* in the far infrared

Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg, Stefan Gillessen, Javier Graciá-Carpio +14

We report the first detection of the Galactic Centre massive black hole, Sgr~A*, in the far infrared. Our measurements were obtained with PACS on board the \emph{Herschel} satellit…