Thousands of previously unseen black holes lurk near the center of our galaxy

The heart of the Milky Way is stacked with black holes. 

According to a new study published this week in the journal Nature, the center of our galaxy appears to play host to more than 10,000 relatively small black holes that we have gone undiscovered until now.

These black holes could help us explain the history of the Milky Way and understand other galaxies on a grand scale.

Some of these black holes — objects so dense that light can’t even escape them — interact with stars and the supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* (pronounced “Sagittarius A-Star”) that functions as the core of the Milky Way.  Read more…

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