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Black Hole At Center of Milky Way Confirmed
Smivs writes "The BBC are reporting that a German team has confirmed the existence of a Black Hole at the center of the Milky Way.
Astronomers tracked the movement of 28 stars circling the center of the Milky Way, using the 3.5m New Technology Telescope and the 8.2m Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. Both are operated by the European Southern Observatory (Eso).
The black hole is four million times heavier than our Sun, according to the paper in The Astrophysical Journal.
According to Dr Robert Massey, of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), the results suggest that galaxies form around giant black holes in the way that a pearl forms around grit."
four million times as massive, you mean?
I still cannot find the droids I am looking for...
Finally, we can all sleep soundly knowing that we are indeed circling the drain...
The only change I can believe in is what I find in my couch cushions.
Ok, Your SUN is so heavy a black hole wouldn't suck him.
ba dum dum.
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The only way to see a black hole being formed 10 billion years ago is to BE 10 billion light years away, looking where the black hole is going to be. You can't look at something and see "back in time" at something else. This is the very core of the Law of Relativity. Point A looking at point B. If you're looking at something that's 1 light year away from you, you're looking at point B as it was a year ago because it took the light (or the reflection of light, as the case may be) a year to get to your position, point A. Everything is relative to where YOU are, not to what you're looking at.