The center of the Milky Way

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Nov 2011

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Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VI, Proceedings of the IX Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA), held

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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This article intends to provide a brief introduction to current Galactic centerresearch. Its approach is observational and it is focused on the massive black hole,Sagittarius A*, and on the Milky Waynuclear star cluster, which surrounds the latter. These twocomponents together are thought to make up > 90% of the mass in the centralfew parsecs. The principal topics tackled in this very brief review are mass of anddistance to Sagittarius A*, basic properties of the nuclear starcluster, the surprising absence of an observable stellar cusp around the black hole, star formation in thecentral 0.5 pc, and hypervelocity stars.

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