@stux 😮 So this is 1999-2012, 13 years elapsed time?

@stux imagine being alive on a planet orbiting a star going all six flags around a black hole

@stux wow - that looks *EXACTLY* like the effect of a black hole in a space missile shooter game I played on an HP terminal in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Loved that game... Have looked for it on the internet several times but no luck.

@stux what's that star going by in the upper left corner?

@stux I don't like linking to YouTube, but David Butler has an excellent segment in sag A*.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khWdiGLtUF4

Skip to 33:45 in the video.

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One of the best time-lapses. Haven't read the paper yet, but here's the dark matter angle:

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-dense-clump-of-dark-matter-not-a-supermassive-black-hole-could-reside-in-the-milky-ways-center

#UniverseToday

This is a timelapse of ~20 Earth years btw!