Star Formation and Dynamics in the Galactic Centre

Understand

The centre of our Galaxy is one of the most studied and yet enigmatic places in the Universe.

• At a distance of about 8 kpc from our Sun, the Galactic centre (GC) is the ideal environment to study the extreme processes that take place in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole (SMBH).
• Despite the hostile environment, several tens of early-type stars populate the central parsec of our Galaxy.
• A fraction of them lie in a thin ring with mild eccentricity and inner radius ~0.04 pc, while the S-stars, i.e.