Confirmed!

It really does suck at the center of our galaxy. After 16 years of study they finally confirmed that there is indeed a massive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Check out the European Space Agency site here.

I like how one of the comments on Slashdot put it. "We're living in an accretion disk."

Gallactic Collisions!

In a few years the Milkyway Galaxy will collide with the Andromida galaxy.

Here's a nifty simulation.

There is also a documentary on the subject here.

Some say when this happens, two things could happen to the earth depending where we are in the galaxy at the time. We'll either get thrown out of the galaxy or burned to a crisp from the collision of the two black holes. Glad it's a couple hundred million years away. :P

Boomer Galaxy

A young galaxy is churning out about 4000 new stars a year. Check it out here.