Big deal. We can never even hope to reach the planets of the nearest star from our sun. What a waste of time to spend on totally useless things.
So the Milky Way has a caramel center?
I for one find this fascinating!
Milky Way to Heracles: you will be assimilated.
Andromeda to Milky Way: you will be assimilated.
Moral of the story: there is always something bigger than you out there.
Carl Sagan posited that all heavy atoms that exist in our Milky Way are evidence that a large star imploded in our current galaxy forming an environment where huge gravitational forces and extremely high temperature produce these heavy materials. The imploding star was not large enough to form a black hole, but it reversed itself and blew out the contents into our galaxy. He called this yield "star stuff".
I hope the geologists don’t resurrect it.
For me, the main problem with Milky Way’s mass is the fact that even after it has been reduced by a factor of 3, the cost has increased by a factor of 3...
As far as the core is concerned, it has all but disappeared into a halo of crappy chemicals...