The Solar System is located in the Milky Way, a huge spiral galaxy containing billions of stars. They are grouped in “arms” that spiral outwards. All of the stars are travelling around a point at the centre. Scientists think there is a supermassive black hole located there that sucks in anything that gets too close to it.
The night sky
On a clear, dark night it is possible to see the Milky Way stretching across the sky at night, cloudy band. Although the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, it doesn’t look like it from Earth because we are inside it!
Black hole
The pull of gravity from a black hole is so great that not even light can escape it. Supermassive black holes, like the one at the centre of the Milky Way, also fire out jets of energy.
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