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April 14th 2010 22:53
Massachusetts Institute of Technology astronomers said on September 5, 2001 that they have pinpointed a tiny area at the Milky Way's heart where a black hole with the mass of 2.6 million Suns is likely to lurk. The Milky Way is 100,000 light years in diameter, and the galacticcenter is about 26,000 light years from Earth, MIT scientist Frederick Baganoff said. The area where the black hole might be is about 10 light minutes across. Shown above is an artist's concept of matter swirlinginto a supermassive black hole.
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