] The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky ] Way Galaxy is heftier than thought and rotates at an ] amazing clip, new research shows. ] ] For years scientists said the black hole contained about ] 2.6 million times the mass of the Sun. They now believe ] the figure is somewhere between 3.2 million and 4 million ] solar masses. ] ] And a new study suggests all that mass, confined to an ] area about 10 times smaller than Earth's orbit around the ] Sun, spins around about once every 11 minutes. New Twists on the Milky Way's Big Black Hole |