Simulation of a "small" black hole at the center of the Milky Way (credit: Wikimedia)
It’s been suspected for some time..
The stuff of Einstein, the stuff of Science Fiction and the stuff of Nothing.. sort of. It’s a region of empty space, sorta kinda..
German astronomers have spent 16 years, studying the movement of stars near the center of our galaxy (the “Milky Way”).
They have concluded there is indeed, a massive “object” there, perhaps 4 million times more massive than our local star, the Sun.
Sucking in Space around it, with gravity so strong, not even rays of light can escape.
Heavy and hard mathematics, predicts space itself to be warped around an object like this.
Get too close to something like this and you’re in deep trouble. Luckily, it’s a good distance from us here on Earth.
The head of the team, Prof. Reinhard Genzel, said..
“Undoubtedly the most spectacular aspect of our 16-year study, is that it has delivered what is now considered to be the best empirical evidence that super-massive black holes do really exist”
Exciting times for Cosmology..
