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.


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