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A near-infrared image of the center of our galaxy.

antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap051023....

Apparently it is old news that a star was discovered orbiting a spot that (given certain measurable things about the star's orbit), many now believe is the super-massive black hole that holds our galaxy together.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittari...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S2_%28sta...

Images (see especially the revealing [drawn?] movie in the first link):
eso.org/outreach/press...
astro.ucla.edu/~jlu/gc/
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