UCLA Galactic Center Group

What is Adaptive Optics?

What is a Black Hole?

Where is the center of the galaxy?

How do we find something we cannot see?

What is the Milky Way?

How Can We See Through the Galaxy to Observe Stars at the Galactic Center?

Animation of the Stellar Orbits around the Galactic Center (2019)

G objects and stars orbiting the super-massive black hole at the center of our Galaxy

Most-asked questions about the flashes from our galaxy's supermassive black hole!

Stellar Orbits around the Galactic Center

First Direct Test of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity Near a Supermassive Black Hole

First Direct Test of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity Near a Supermassive Black Hole

Tracking stars around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way: now and the future