Second Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way

Tsalg pastes "A second black hole lurks at the centre of our Galaxy, according to astronomers who have watched a cluster of stars spinning around it. Just three years ago, astronomers confirmed that the Milky Way revolves around a supermassive black hole, called Sagittarius A*, which is about 2.6 million times more massive than the Sun. But now a much smaller black hole, just 1,300 times our Sun's mass, has been found orbiting about three light years away from its supermassive cousin. placing it intermediate between the relatively small (stellar mass) black holes in the Milky way Galaxy and the supermassive black holes found in the nuclei of galaxies."

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i read....

[Anonymous Coward]

...a security hole instead a second black hole on the first glance. I guess im getting paranoid.

Tithing

[AtariAmarok]

"black holes are a popular myth like god"

So, if you give money to a church, it goes to God; and if you pay taxes to government, it goes down a black hole?

Stars ripping each other apart.

[AtariAmarok]

we have pictures of stars colliding or ripping each other apart

See this link for more information and pictures. I particularly like the one where Andre Agassi knocks Tiger Woods' kneecap out of the arena.

So, is it just a coincidence

[CodeWanker]

that when I flush a toilet the water looks like a spiral galazy as it goes down the sewer? Sounds like God leaned on the handle.

Black hole?

[Anonymous Coward]

Thats not a black hole! That's just the goatse guy!

Re:black hole collision

[Tablizer]

Actually this is a pretty tough problem to solve. The computation was attempted by several leading numerical relativity institutions some years ago, but met with no success.

Just divide by zero......twice :-)

Colour?

[AMD-lover]

As many of us surely know, black holes are, like black boxes, actually orange.

Death and Taxes

[RobertB-DC]

[T]hey calculated from the movement of the seven stars that they must be orbiting an intermediate-mass black hole, called IRS 13E, which spirals around Sagittarius A* at about 280 kilometres per second.

Is it just serendipity that this object, into which everything goes and never comes back, is named after an Earthly agency to which similar attributes are often ascribed?