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  • Second black hole found at the centre of our Galaxy

    11/09/2004 9:51:00 AM PST · by 4kevin · 38 replies · 1,367+ views
    Nature.com ^ | 11.09.04 | Mark Peplow
    Seven stars orbiting the region identify the invisible object. A second black hole lurks at the centre of our Galaxy, according to astronomers who have watched a cluster of stars spinning around it. Just three years ago, astronomers confirmed that the Milky Way revolves around a supermassive black hole, called Sagittarius A*, which is about 2.6 million times more massive than the Sun. But now a much smaller black hole, just 1,300 times our Sun's mass, has been found orbiting about three light years away from its supermassive cousin. Jean-Pierre Maillard, an astronomer from the Institute of Astrophysics in Paris,...