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Black Holes in Central Park

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The Black Hole Sagittarius a Star

This black hole Sagittarius A Star is about four million times the mass of our sun. It has a diameter of about 15 million miles, which is bigger than the sun, but smaller than the orbit of Mercury. We have actually taken a picture of the black hole at the center of our galaxy. And it took them five years to analyze literally like petabytes of data.

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