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Ben Turner

Strange 'echo' from the Milky Way's central black hole reveals it briefly awoke 200 years ago

Artist's concept of a supermassive black hole.

A mysterious echo from the center of our galaxy's supermassive black hole has revealed that, some 200 years ago, the sleeping monster briefly woke up.

Located 26,000 light-years away, the black hole, called Sagittarius A*, is a gargantuan tear in space-time that is 4 million times the mass of the sun and 40 million miles (60 million kilometers) across. 

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