Thursday, 17. October 2002
Topic: - on October 17, 2002 at 1:05:13 AM CEST
Scientists Confirm Massive Black Hole in Milky Way
Scientists said Wednesday they have discovered at the center of our galaxy a huge black hole, a mysterious celestial object that sucks in everything around it including light.
By observing the orbit of a star around the invisible gravitational field, an international team of scientists has eliminated other possibilities of explaining the phenomenon. "It is a great step forward," Dr. Reinhard Genzel, of the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics near Munich who led the team, told Reuters Wednesday.
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