The Milky Way contains a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the Sun.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by multiple independent, high-quality sources including NASA, Harvard CfA, Britannica, and Nobel Prize committee materials, with measurements from Nobel-winning research using decades of stellar orbit tracking and further corroborated by ESO and Event Horizon Telescope observations.
Sources
- A third of black holes in the Universe could be hiding from view | BBC Sky at Night Magazine (skyatnightmagazine.com)
- https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/supermassive-black-hole-our-galaxy (cfa.harvard.edu)
- https://www.nasa.gov/universe/nasa-animation-sizes-up-the-universes-biggest-black-holes/ (nasa.gov)
- https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2020/popular-information/ (nobelprize.org)
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20081 (arxiv.org)
- https://www.science.org/content/article/new-method-reveals-perhaps-most-massive-black-hole-yet-spotted (science.org)