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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."
"There ain't no milk today, it wasn't always so. The company was gay, they turned night into day." The centre of the Milkyway must be a very inhospitable place, with lots of high energy radiation. That could explain why we are out here on a spiral arm.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
I am not Einstein, and I could have told you that, what gave it away, seeing all those solar systems slowly moving towards the middle, the fact that galaxies usually look like big black holes anyways, or just maybe when those 2 galaxies collided a few months back (last year maybe?)...they showed patterns of gravity towards each other.....too little too late guys.