Black hole found in Milky Way

My concern is just that the sun will supposedly orbit through the center of the milky way galaxy, and the wyans predicted this happens every 28000 years , so that means this has happened before and everything was ok right? black holes are scary , hopefully the sun just orbits right around it.

That's interesting, and the idea of a blackhole is really under debate as well, but this is very interesting all the same. I think this has a lot to do with the movement of things in the milky way.

Coincidence; it apears at the same time the US national debt is in the trillions? That sucking sound is your dollars going down another black hole right here!

Black holes are not scary i have one in my head my brain used to be.

No really, it is a very very far away and will take forever to get any were near us if it can grow as speculated.

Didn't they figure this out a while ago?

Oh well, yey astronomy!

The real news is that people are so misinformed about black holes.

Yes it has a gravitational effect on us, but less than that of our own Sun and Moon.

Black holes don't suck everything into them. Objects can orbit black holes just like any massive body.

This is not going to bring upon the apocalypse in 2012. If you want to predict doom from an astronomical body you're better off looking at Betelgeuse or Antares.

This was found at least a decade ago! What are you talking about?! I was still in school when I first heard this news.

scientifically that might help explain the 'dark matter' issues. Personally, I think I have a cousin (a very tiny cousin to be sure) of the black hole living in the bottom of my purse--and another in the kitchen.

AND really, that explains where the socks go!

dont be afraid... if it were to cause us any harm it would happen very quickly...... or really really slowly stretching half our planet like silly putty at first, then most objects would launch themselves spontainiously into the cold dark space where up is down light is dark and a monkey in a lab coat shoots your mother full of aids in the name of science........
but like everything, thats just a theory

That can't be good for the economy. Nothing slows down spending like impending doom.

The interesting thing about these super massive black holes is that they could the cause of galaxy formation. If this is true, then we owe our very existence to most destructive force in the universe. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

Black holes are fascinating things, they are so dense and massive and their gravitational pull so strong that they can swallow and bend light around them.

Technically they are not black holes but black spheres that suck all the light around them thus giving the appearance of a hole...

plug it with a ginormous cork! !

Its pretty much been known that there was a huge black hole at the center of the galaxy. It does some pretty cool stuff, because of the gravity around it, it creates starts from all the dust it is sucking in.

But luckly we have nothing to worry about, we are far far away from this black hole. Maybe in a few billion years the planet might have to worry, but by then our sun will probably have blown up and destroyed the planet.

Murphy's laws states that " Anything that can go wrong will go wrong" and in keeping with his ideals it's only a matter of time before this situation escalates.

no reason to fret, were not gonna get sucked it. why...some equalizing force somthingorother at some point close to the center and stuff. i dont remember but some smart guy on that "the universe" series said we'd be hunkydory and if he's wrong theres nothing to do about it but get high and shitfaced while you still can.

our local friendly neighbourhood blackhole... space is pretty amazing, isn't it? It's cool that the one in our galaxy has finally been found.

What if all matter in the universe existed as black holes for anti-matter? we would be the products of black holes. One could argue that black holes are universes that exist within our universe. Why not?

Reminds me of a song sung by the great band called Muse. Super massive black HOLE!!!!

uhhm, i thought this black hole was already confirmed... plus, at the center of every galaxy, there is a black hole. this is old news imo, but still cool, i guess.

I might be wrong but I know what i've heard before. I've heard in one or two reports that come december 21 2012 what's really going to happen based on astrological studies is that all the planets in the milky way will be aligned and the earth will be dead center in the milky way. If theirs a black hole in the center doesn't that spell trouble? I'm not positive but this is what i've heard. If you've heard the same let me know.

AWW HELL......JUS WHAT WE NEED..A PLANET EATING HOLE!

I guess it's news because the Germans are up to speed with the rest of the world's astronomers now?

When the wind blows you better hold on tight.

Many don't realize that black holes are a lot more common than we think. We can't also forget the micro black holes that exist out there.

Yes, black holes are at the center of galexys; however, we always just assumed there was one at the center of ours. We have never been able to confirm it. It's like if you were a biologist and examined a bunch of dead animals to find that they all had hearts, and assumed you had a heart as well. And only now (this study) indirectly conformed your hypothesis.

I wonder where the lensing effect kicks in for this galaxy?
Where would beings from outside galaxy begin feeling the effects of relative perception when visiting ours?
Time is entirely relative; would the same quantified amount of time pass more quickly beyond the effects of galactic black-holes. A year beyond is a day here sorta thing; without traveling at excessive speeds simply due to proximity of super-gravity.

We're always going to find new interesting things in our sky, we always need to satisfy our curiosity!

Yes atainder.
I always visualize that also..it seems like that there would be one at the center of each galaxy..
and perhaps that is spitted out as supernova stars on the other side...somehow...

Yea.. isn't there one at the center of every galaxy??

Black holes in the center of galaxies is pretty old news, including the one here in the Milky Way

"The black hole is four million times heavier than our Sun"

Erm, that's pretty f**king massive!

We'll be fine as long as we don't send any astronauts over that way...right?