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'''Sagittarius A*''' (diucapkan "Sagittarius A-star", biasa disingkat '''Sgr A*''') adalah [[Sumber Radio Astronomi|sumber radio astronomi]] yang sangat cerah di wilayah [[Pusat Galaksi|pusat]] [[Bima Sakti]]. Sgr A* merupakan bagian dari [[Sagittarius A]]. Sgr A* dipercayai menjadi tempat tinggalnya sebuah [[lubang hitam supermasif]].<ref>[[#Reynolds|Reynolds 2008]]</ref> Observasi bintang [[S2 (bintang)|S2]] yang mengorbit Sagittarius A* telah digunakan untuk menunjukkan adanya lubang hitam supermasif di pusat Bima Sakti, dan telah ditarik kesimpulan bahwa Sagittarius A* merupakan situs terbentuknya lubang hitam.<ref name="Henderson" />
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[[Berkas:Gcle.jpg|jmpl|250x250px|Sgr A* (tengah) dan dua [[gema cahaya]] dari ledakan baru-baru ini (dilingkari)]]
[[Berkas:Chandra image of Sgr A.jpg|thumbjmpl|Gambar Sgr A* dari [[Observatorium sinar-X Chandra]].]]
'''Sagittarius A*''' (diucapkan "Sagittarius A-star", biasa disingkat '''Sgr A*''') adalah sebuah [[lubang hitam supermasif]]<ref>{{Cite news|date=2018-10-31|title=Scientists find proof a black hole is lurking at the centre of our galaxy|url=https://metro.co.uk/2018/10/31/scientists-find-proof-a-supermassive-black-hole-is-lurking-at-the-centre-of-the-milky-way-8092994/|work=Metro|language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031214911/https://metro.co.uk/2018/10/31/scientists-find-proof-a-supermassive-black-hole-is-lurking-at-the-centre-of-the-milky-way-8092994/|archive-date=2018-10-31|access-date=2018-10-31|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2018-10-31|title=A 'mind-boggling' telescope observation has revealed the point of no return for our galaxy's monster black hole|url=https://www.middletownpress.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Supermassive-black-holes-gorge-themselves-on-a-7971243.php|work=The Middletown Press|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031144008/https://www.middletownpress.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Supermassive-black-holes-gorge-themselves-on-a-7971243.php|archive-date=2018-10-31|access-date=2018-10-31|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="plait">{{cite web|last1=Plait|first1=Phil|date=2018-11-08|title=Astronomers see material orbiting a black hole *right* at the edge of forever|url=https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/astronomers-see-material-orbiting-a-black-hole-right-at-the-edge-of-forever|publisher=Syfy Wire|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181110143143/https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/astronomers-see-material-orbiting-a-black-hole-right-at-the-edge-of-forever|archive-date=10 November 2018|access-date=12 November 2018}}</ref> di [[Pusat Galaksi]] [[Bima Sakti]]. Sgr A* terletak dekat perbatasan rasi bintang [[Sagitarius|Sagittarius]] dan [[Scorpius]], kira-kira 5,6° selatan [[ekliptika]], dan tampak dekat [[Gugus Kupu-kupu]] (M6) dan [[Shaula]].
 
Observasi beberapa bintang yang mengorbit Sagittarius A*, terutama bintang [[S2 (bintang)|S2]], digunakan untuk mementukan massa dan batas maksimum radius objek. Berdasarkan massa dan batas radius yang semakin presisi, para astronom menarik kesimpulan bahwa Sagittarius A* adalah lubang hitam supermasif di pusat Bima Sakti.<ref name="Henderson" /> Nilai massanya saat ini adalah 4,154 (± 0,014) juta [[massa Matahari]].<ref name="GRAVITY">{{cite journal|author=The GRAVITY collaboration|date=April 2019|title=A geometric distance measurement to the Galactic center black hole with 0.3% uncertainty|url=https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/05/aa35656-19/aa35656-19.html|journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics|volume=625|pages=L10|arxiv=1904.05721|bibcode=2019A&A...625L..10G|doi=10.1051/0004-6361/201935656|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191004044634/https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/05/aa35656-19/aa35656-19.html|archive-date=2019-10-04|access-date=2019-10-04|s2cid=119190574|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
[[Reinhard Genzel]] dan [[Andrea Ghez]] menerima [[Penghargaan Nobel Fisika]] 2020 untuk menemukan bahwa Sgr A* adalah objek supermasif dan padat, dimana [[lubang hitam]] adalah satu-satunya penjelasan yang masuk akal pada saat itu.<ref>{{cite news|date=6 October 2020|title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2020/summary/|language=en-us|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424115309/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2020/summary/|archive-date=24 April 2021|access-date=7 October 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
Pada 12 Mei 2022, menggunakan [[Event Horizon Telescope|Teleskop Event Horizon]], para astronom merilis foto Sagittarius A* yang menggunakan data dari observasi radio pada April 2017,<ref name="AJ-202205">{{cite journal|last=Bower|first=Geoffrey C.|date=May 2022|title=Focus on First Sgr A* Results from the Event Horizon Telescope|url=https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2041-8205/page/Focus_on_First_Sgr_A_Results|journal=[[The Astrophysical Journal]]|accessdate=12 May 2022}}</ref> dan memastikan bahwa objek ini adalah lubang hitam. Ini adalah gambar terkonfirmasi lubang hitam kedua, setelah foto lubang hitam supermasif [[Messier 87]] pada tahun 2019.<ref name="ESO22082">{{cite news|date=12 May 2022|title=Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy|url=https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2208-eht-mw/|work=eso.org|access-date=12 May 2022}}</ref><ref name="NYT-20220512">{{Cite news|last=Overbye|first=Dennis|date=2022-05-12|title=The Milky Way's Black Hole Comes to Light|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/12/science/black-hole-photo.html|work=The New York Times|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2022-05-12}}</ref>
 
== Observasi ==
Para astronom telah mampu mengamati Sgr A* dalam [[Spektrum kasat mata|spektrum optik]] karena efek dari 25 besaran [[magnitudo]] antara Sgr A* dan [[Bumi]].<ref name="Osterbrock">[[#Osterbrock|Osterbrock and Ferland 2006]], p. 390</ref> Beberapa tim peneliti telah berusaha untuk menggambarkan Sagittarius A* dalam spektrum radio dengan menggunakan [[Very-long-baseline Interferometry|interferometri dasar yang sangat panjang]] (VLBI). Pengukuran dengan resolusi tertinggi saat ini, telah dibuat dengan panjang gelombang 1.,3 [[Milimeter|mm]], yang mana menunjukkan [[diameter sudut]] untuk sumber dari 37 [[Menit busur|μas]].<ref name="EHS" /> Sagittarius A* berjarak 26.000 [[tahun cahaya]] (~44 juta [[kilometer]]) dari Bumi.
 
== Sejarah ==
'''Sgr A*''' ditemukan pada tanggal 13 dan 15 [[Februari]] 1974 oleh astronom Bruce Ballick dan Robert Brown dengan menggunakan interferometri dasar dari [[National Radio Astronomy Observatory|Observatorium Radio Astronomi Nasional]].<ref>[[#Melia|Melia 2007]], p. 2</ref> Nama Sgr A* diciptakan oleh Brown karena sumber radio itu "menarik", karena keadaan tereksitasi dari atom ditandai dengan tanda bintang.<ref>http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0305074</ref>
 
Observasi radio Sgr A* dengan VLBI juga bisa disejajarkan terpusat dengan gambar sehingga bintang S2 bisa dilihat mengorbit Sagittarius A*. Dari analisaanalisis bintang S2 terhadap [[Orbit Kepler]], Sagittarius A* bermassa sekitar 2.,6 ± 0.,2 juta massa matahari.<ref>[[#Ghez03|Ghez ''et al.'' 2003]]</ref> Mereka juga menentukan jarak dari [[Bumi]] ke [[pusat galaksi]], yang mana hal yang sangat penting dalam mengkalibrasi skala astronomi, seperti 8.,0 ± 0.,6 × 10<sup>3</sup> [[parsec]].
 
Pada bulan November 2004, sebuah tim astronom melaporkan penemuan [[Lubang Hitam|lubang hitam bermassa menengah]] yang bernama [[GCIRS 13E]], mengorbit Sagittarius A* dengan jarak 3 tahun cahaya. Lubang hitam ini bermassa 1.300 kali massa matahari. Penemuan ini dapat menambahkan gagasan bahwa lubang hitam supermasif tumbuh dengan menyerap lubang hitam kecil disekitarnya.
 
== Pusat lubang hitam ==
Jika posisi Sagittarius A* benar-benar berada di pusat lubang hitam, akan ada kemungkinan ukurannya telah diperbesar dari ukuran aslinya, karena disebabkan oleh [[lensa gravitasi]]. Menurut teori [[relativitas umum]], hal ini akan menghasilkan ukuran minimal setidaknya 5.,2 kali lebih besar daripada [[Radius Schwarzschild|radius lubang hitam Schwarzschild]].<ref name="EHS">[[#Doeleman|Doeleman ''et al.'' 2008]]</ref>
 
Para astronom yakin bahwa pengamatan ini memberikan bukti empiris baik bahwa galaksi [[Bima Sakti]] kita memiliki lubang hitam supermasif di pusatnya yang berjarak 26.000 tahun cahaya dari [[Tata Surya]],<ref name="Henderson">{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5316001.ece|title=Astronomers confirm black hole at the heart of the Milky Way|last=Henderson|first=Mark|date=December 9, 2008|publisher= Times Online|accessdate=2009-05-17}}</ref> karena:
* Bintang [[S2 (bintang)|S2]] mengikuti orbit elips dengan periode 15.,2 tahun dan ber-[[apsis]] (jarak terdekat) 17 [[Detik Cahaya|jam cahaya]] ({{val|1.8|e=13|u=m}}) dari pusat objek.<ref>{{cite journal |first=R. |last=Schödel |coauthors=et al. |date=17 October 2002 |title=A star in a 15.2-year orbit around the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_nature-uk_2002-10-17_419_6908/page/694 |journal=Nature |volume=419 |issue= 6908|pages=694–696 | doi= 10.1038/nature01121 |arxiv=astro-ph/0210426 |pmid=12384690|bibcode = 2002Natur.419..694S }}
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* Dari pergerakan bintang S2, massanya dapat diperkirakan sekitar 4.,1 juta kali massa matahari.<ref name="Ghez08">{{cite journal
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* Jari-jari objek sentral harus secara signifikan kurang dari 17 jam cahaya, karena jika tidak, S2 akan bertabrakan dengannya.
* Satu-satunya objek yang bermassa 4.,1 juta kali massa matahari dalam volume yang kecil adalah lubang hitam.
 
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== Referensi ==
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* <cite id=Eisenhauer>{{cite journal | author = Eisenhauer, F. | coauthors = ''et al.'' | title = A Geometric Determination of the Distance to the Galactic Center | date = 23 October 2003 | journal = The Astrophysical Journal | doi = 10.1086/380188 | pages = L121&ndash;L124L121–L124 | issue = 2 | volume = 597 | bibcode=2003ApJ...597L.121E | arxiv=astro-ph/0306220}}</cite>
* <cite id=Ghez03>{{cite journal | author = Ghez, A. M. | coauthors = ''et al.'' | date = 12 March 2003 | title = The First Measurement of Spectral Lines in a Short-Period Star Bound to the Galaxy’s Central Black Hole: A Paradox of Youth | journal = The Astrophysical Journal | volume = 586 | issue = 2 | pages = L127&ndash;L131L127–L131 | doi = 10.1086/374804 | bibcode=2003ApJ...586L.127G}}</cite>
* <cite id=Ghez08>{{cite journal
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* <cite id=Gillessen>{{cite journal |last=Gillessen |first=Stefan |authorlink= |coauthors=''et al.''|date = 23 February 2009 |title=Monitoring stellar orbits around the Massive Black Hole in the Galactic Center |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |volume=692 |issue= 2|pages=1075–1109 |doi = 10.1088/0004-637X/692/2/1075 |bibcode=2009ApJ...692.1075G }}</cite>
* <cite id=Melia>{{cite book|author = Melia, Fulvio|title = The Galactic Supermassive Black Hole|url = https://archive.org/details/galacticsupermas0000meli|publisher = Princeton University Press|year = 2007|isbn = 0-691-13129-5|location = Princeton}}</cite>
* <cite id=ONeill>{{cite news|author = O'Neill, Ian|title = Beyond Any Reasonable Doubt: A Supermassive Black Hole Lives in Centre of Our Galaxy|url = http://www.universetoday.com/2008/12/10/beyond-any-reasonable-doubt-a-supermassive-black-hole-lives-in-centre-of-our-galaxy/|publisher = Universe Today|date = 10 December 2008 }}</cite>
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* <cite id=Reynolds>{{cite journal | author = Reynolds, C. | title = Astrophysics: Bringing black holes into focus | url = https://archive.org/details/sim_nature-uk_2008-09-04_455_7209/page/39 | journal = Nature | volume = 455 | pages = 39&ndash;4039–40 | date = 4 September 2008 | doi = 10.1038/455039a | pmid = 18769426 | issue = 7209 | bibcode=2008Natur.455...39R}}</cite>
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== Pranala luar ==
{{Commons category|Sagittarius A}}
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6199067060728714818&q=black+hole UCLA Faculty Research presentation on Sagittarius A*] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070103022621/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6199067060728714818 |date=2007-01-03 }} (Video)
* [http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~ghezgroup/gc/ UCLA Galactic Center Group - latest results] retrieved 8/12/2009
* [http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.2624 Is there a Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way? (arxiv preprint)]
* [http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0306130 2004 paper deducing mass of central black hole from orbits of 7 stars (arxiv preprint)]
* [http://www.eso.org/public/archives/videos/old_video/eso0226a.mpg ESO video clip of orbiting star] (533 KB MPEG Video)
* [http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2002/pr-17-02.html Star Orbiting Massive Milky Way Centre Approaches to within 17 Light-Hours] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517143546/http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2002/pr-17-02.html |date=2008-05-17 }} [[ESO]] Press Release, October 16, 2002
* [http://www.mpe.mpg.de/ir/GC/index.php Max Planck page on the galactic center, with animation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040925044354/http://www.mpe.mpg.de/ir/GC/index.php |date=2004-09-25 }}
* [http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0408107 The Proper Motion of Sgr A* and the Mass of Sgr A*] (PDF)
* [http://www.nrao.edu/pr/1998/bhole/ NRAO article] regarding VLBI radio imaging of Sgr A*