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What is the center of milky way galaxy​?​

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At the center of the Milky Way sits a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. With a mass equal to that of four million suns, the black hole, discovered in 1974, can be observed in the sky with radio telescopes close to the constellation Sagittarius.
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MILKY WAY GALAXY

The Milky Way galaxy is our home galaxy. It is a kind of spiral galaxy where solar system, including the Sun, the planets, asteoroids, comets along with billions of small celestial bodies are found.

WHAT IS THE CENTER OF MILKY WAY?

~ The center of Milky Way galaxy is a supermassive black hole known as Sagittarius A*. This black hole was discovered in 1974 by Bruce Balick and Robert L. Brown.

Sagittarius A* can be seen in the night sky using radio telescopes within the constellation Sagittarius - a constellation discovered by Ptolemy. This black hole is so massive that it's literally equivalent to more than four million suns compressed altogether.

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