Astronomers are confident that our own Milky Way galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center , 26,000 light-years from the Solar System , in a region called Sagittarius A \* because : The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and UCLA Galactic Center Group have provided the strongest evidence to date that Sagittarius A \* is the site of a supermassive black hole , based on data from ESO 's Very Large Telescope and the Keck telescope .
The region is called Sagittarius A \* , and the evidence for its being a black hole is : The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics , and the UCLA Galactic Center Group , have provided strong evidence that Sagittarius A \* is the site of a supermassive black hole .