Black hole at the centre of the Milky Way

Motion of stars at the Milky Way Center

Central Stars in Motion

Flashes of light as matter enters Milky Way Center

Update (2012-01-19)

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Crafoord Prize in Astronomy 2012 to Reinhard Genzel, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany and Andrea Ghez, University of California, Los Angeles, USA,
“for their observations of the stars orbiting the galactic centre, indicating the presence of a supermassive black hole”.