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Verified Milky way pit

Verified black milky way pit

01/01/2009 | Elhuyar

After sixteen years of research, a group of German astronomers have highlighted that the Milky Way has a black hole in the center. At 27,000 light-years from Earth, the black hole is four million times larger than the Sun. All this has resulted in the movement of 28 stars rotating in the center of our galaxy, using two telescopes from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile.

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