how many people know about THIS?

In our own area of the universe are some incredible formations that are often not discussed.  Even in our own solar system there are a lot of bizarre happenings such as the bright spots on Ceres for example.  We are often focused on galaxies that are billions of light years away.  However, the black hole in our own Milky Way galaxy is gnarly:

From a distance, our galaxy would look like a flat spiral, some 100,000 light years across, with pockets of gas, clouds of dust, and about 400 billion stars rotating around the galaxys center. Thick dust and blinding starlight have long obscured our vision into the mysterious inner regions of the galactic center. And yet, the clues have been piling up, that something important, something strange is going on in there. Astronomers tracking stars in the center of the galaxy have found the best proof to date that black holes exist. Now, they are shooting for the first direct image of a black hole.

From a distance, our galaxy would look something like this.

A flat spiral, some 100,000 light years across, with pockets of gas, clouds of dust, and about 400 billion stars rotating around the galaxy’s center.

Did you know about these properties?  Pretty cool huh?

Let’s check out a video with some pics of the black hole in our galaxy on page 2

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