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PROOF OF EXISTENCE AND LOCATION Because of cool Interstellar Dust along the Line Of Sight , the Galactic Center cannot be studied at Visible , Ultraviolet or soft X-ray Wavelength s. The available information about the Galactic Center comes from observations at Gamma Ray , hard X-ray, Infrared , sub-millimetre and Radio wavelengths.
PREDICTIONS Work presented in 2002 by Antony Stark and Chris Martin mapping the gas density in a 400 Light Year region around the galactic center has revealed an accumulating ring with a mass several million times that of the Sun and near the critical density for Star Formation . They predict that in approximately 200 million years there will be an episode of Starburst in the galactic center, with many stars forming rapidly and undergoing supernovas at a hundred times the current rate. The starburst may also be accompanied by the formation of Galactic Jet s as matter falls into the central black hole. It is thought that the Milky Way undergoes a starburst of this sort every 500 million years. The coordinates of Galactic Center in the 17h45m40.04s, Dec -29ยบ 00' 28.1" ( J2000 Epoch ). SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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