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Thu 12 Dec 2008US and German scientists shine light on black hole's form and function
AFTER 16 years of research, teams of American and European scientists have compiled the most complete portrait of the gigantic black hole at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy, plotting its gravity-bending mass as being equivalent to a staggering four million suns.
The researchers from Germany and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), also pinpoint the distance to the centre of the galaxy at 27,000 light years.
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