http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2002/oct/blackhole/index.html
A team of astronomers is reporting new evidence that Earth's galaxy, the Milky Way, is spinning slowly around a super-massive black hole. The researchers have been watching a handful of stars at the center of the Milky Way for a decade -- waiting for one to swerve. This week, they report in the journal Nature that they've found a star whose telltale orbit can only be explained by the pull of a black hole. The astrophysicists used the Very Large Telescope, which stands atop a mountain in northern Chile. With it, scientists can see into the crowded center of the Milky Way. Scientists have known that there is a very heavy object there, something weighing 3.5 million times as much as the sun. But in order to prove it was a black hole, the team from Germany's Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics had to show that all of that material is packed into a very small space. One way to do this is by watching stars around it. xponent Destiny Of Density Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
