S2 · close to Sagittarius A*
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S2 · close to Sagittarius A*

Follow the 2018 periapsis passage.

S2 speeds up near Sagittarius A*. Documented Keplerian orbit, without relativistic precession.

Why explore it?

Documented orbits; illustrative stellar sizes. Close-ups reuse the black-hole renderer, without a luminous disk for Gaia BH1.