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Published on: AS

June – July 2013

massive cloud of interstellar gas is approaching the supermassive central black hole of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, known as Sagittarius A (Sgr A), with a good chance that part of it will fall directly into the singularity. The central black hole has a mass of 4 million solar masses, while the gas cloud itself is about four times the mass of the Earth.