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There is a giant black hole at the centre of our galaxy, a 16-year study by German astronomers has confirmed.
They tracked the movement of 28 stars circling the centre of the Milky Way, using two telescopes in Chile.
The black hole, said to be 27,000 light years from Earth, is four million times bigger than the Sun, according to the paper in The Astrophysical Journal.
Black holes are objects whose gravity is so great that nothing - including light - can escape them.
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.
'The black pearl'
Dr Massey said: "Although we think of black holes as somehow threatening, in the sense that if you get too close to one you are in trouble, they may have had a role in helping galaxies to form - not just our own, but all galaxies.
"They had a role in bringing matter together and if you had a high enough density of matter then you have the conditions in which stars could form.
"Thus the first generation of stars and galaxies could have come into existence".
The researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany said the black hole was 27,000 light years, or 158 thousand, million, million miles from the Earth.
"Undoubtedly the most spectacular aspect of our 16-year study, is that it has delivered what is now considered to be the best empirical evidence that super-massive black holes do really exist," said Professor Reinhard Genzel, head of the research team.
"The stellar orbits in the galactic centre show that the central mass concentration of four million solar masses must be a black hole, beyond any reasonable doubt."
Observations were made 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).

There's a theory that there's a black hole here on Earth. They theorized that it's somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle.

Oh well, I have another thing to keep me awake at night now.

Oh well, I have another thing to keep me awake at night now.

...over what?

I hope it's not fear; even if there IS a black hole in the center of the galaxy, and even IF it would eventually engulf this planet, Earth is on the outer spiral arm of the galaxy...you will be LONG dead before you'd have anything to worry about personally.

So...I hope it's more a matter of scientific and cosmic ponderables keeping you up. Just sayin'...

Oh well, I have another thing to keep me awake at night now.

...over what?

I hope it's not fear; even if there IS a black hole in the center of the galaxy, and even IF it would eventually engulf this planet, Earth is on the outer spiral arm of the galaxy...you will be LONG dead before you'd have anything to worry about personally.

So...I hope it's more a matter of scientific and cosmic ponderables keeping you up. Just sayin'...

I was being sarcastic, but whatever.

I feel like I've always been able to discern sarcasm on the internet, although it may not have been "always"

Wasn't there a terrible b-movie recently about a black hole in Los Angeles?