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Black hole hurtling across the plane of the Milky Way

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Title Black hole hurtling across the plane of the Milky Way

Released 07/04/2003 2:41 pm

Copyright European Space Agency, NASA and Felix Mirabel (the French Atomic Energy Commission & the Institute for Astronomy and Space Physics/Conicet of Argentina)

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Artist's impression shows an oblique view of our Milky Way galaxy. The black-hole system GRO J1655-40 is streaking through space at a rate of 400 000 kilometres per hour - 4 times faster than the average velocity of the stars in the galactic neighbourhood. The yellow star is our Sun.

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Activity Space Science

Mission Hubble Space Telescope (HST)

Keywords Astronomy targets , Astronomy targets , Milky Way

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