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Traversing the Galactic Centre in space and time

  • Michal Zajaček
  • Bożena Czerny
  • Martin Mondek
  • Samik Mitra
  • Matúš Labaj
  • Tomáš Ondro
  • Jan Janík
  • Jiří Dušek
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Abstract

The Galactic Center is often identified with its central supermassive black hole, Sgr A*. Yet the black hole governs gravitationally only the innermost few parsecs of the Milky Way, while the surrounding Nuclear Star Cluster, Nuclear Stellar Disc and Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) shape the dynamics of stars and gas on progressively larger scales. Understanding how these components interact is essential not only for reconstructing the history of our own Galaxy, but also for interpreting galactic nuclei more generally.

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@misc{zajacek2026traversing,
  title = {{Traversing the Galactic Centre in space and time}},
  author = {Michal Zajaček and Bożena Czerny and Martin Mondek and Samik Mitra and Matúš Labaj and Tomáš Ondro and Jan Janík and Jiří Dušek},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2606.24706},
  eprint = {2606.24706},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24706},
}
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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Traversing the Galactic Centre in space and time
AU  - Michal Zajaček
AU  - Bożena Czerny
AU  - Martin Mondek
AU  - Samik Mitra
AU  - Matúš Labaj
AU  - Tomáš Ondro
AU  - Jan Janík
AU  - Jiří Dušek
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/15
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2606.24706
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24706
AB  - The Galactic Center is often identified with its central supermassive black hole, Sgr A*. Yet the black hole governs gravitationally only the innermost few parsecs of the Milky Way, while the surrounding Nuclear Star Cluster, Nuclear Stellar Disc and Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) shape the dynamics of stars and gas on progressively larger scales. Understanding how these components interact is essential not only for reconstructing the history of our own Galaxy, but also for interpreting galactic nuclei more generally.
ER  -