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Jump100of 100 · 27,000 light years from Earth

Sagittarius A*: the black hole at the centre of the galaxy

Sagittarius A* weighs about 4 million Suns and its first image came out in 2022. It is the end of Orbit's route. Facts with their sources.

The first image of Sagittarius A*: an orange ring of bright gas around a dark shadow, from the Event Horizon Telescope
Image: EHT Collaboration (CC BY 4.0), via NASA · original

Curious facts

  1. 4 million Suns

    It has about 4 million times the mass of the Sun and lies about 27,000 light years away, at the centre of our galaxy. 1

  2. Its first image, in 2022

    On 12 May 2022 the Event Horizon Telescope, which links radio telescopes across the planet, released its first image: a dark shadow inside a ring of bright gas. 1

  3. Too far even for Voyager

    Voyager 1, the spacecraft that has travelled farthest, cruises at about 61,000 km/h. At that speed, if it were heading that way, it would take almost 500 million years to get there. That is my own sum, from NASA’s figures. 2

Sagittarius A* in Orbit

In the game, Sagittarius A* is jump 100 of the route, 27,000 light years from Earth. Its logbook card says:

Logbook · Jump 100

4 million Suns; first imaged by the EHT in 2022

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What Orbit is like

Sources

  1. ESO / EHT, 2022. eso.org/public/news/eso2208-eht-mw
  2. NASA, Voyager 1: What Is a Light-Day?. science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/voyager-1/voyager-1-what-is-a-light-day

Checked between 8 and 11 October 2026.

Image: EHT Collaboration (CC BY 4.0), via NASA · original