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Last week's summit meeting in Bonn was no more of a failure than its predecessors. These meetings do not settle issues, but have the virtue of putting them on the international agenda.
The latest accurate measurements of the size of the galactic core at centimetre radio-wavelengths leave no reasonable escape from the conclusion that there is a black hole at the centre.