The Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way
Mass = 4 billion solar masses
Radius =
G
M
/
c
2
= 6 million km = 10 solar radii
Natural timescale =
G
M
/
c
3
= 20 seconds
Dimensionless accretion rate =
20 seconds
Age of Universe
= 10
-
16
Inflationary scale length = 10
-
16
× Radius = 10
-
4
millimeters
Þ
In less than 1 millimeter, the density at the inner horizon
will exponentiate to vastly greater than the Planck density.
Penrose diagram of an extremal black hole