Black Hole found in Milky Way

[Demon_Skeith]

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."

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well were screwed in the future no matter what.

 

[Hachi]

Lol, "Very Large Telescope" what a creative name.

 

[froggyboy604]

Sounds like a cool telescope.

 

[GAMER_NOW]

QUOTE (Hachi @ December 10, 2008 07:21 pm) Lol, "Very Large Telescope" what a creative name.
I wonder how large a VLT is.

And don't think a black hole will immediately pull us into a void. gravity is the weakest force known to man.