This Road Leads to the Heart of the Milky Way

This road near Phoenix, Arizona leads to the heart of the Milky Way. Well, that's assuming your car will handle the 26,000 light-year drive, and can fly through, uh, space. And you can endure the cold, radiation and space madness. Anyway, you get the metaphor. Tyler Sichelski took this photo of the galactic core, the central bulge of the Milky Way. It's a region of incredible density and activity, and at the very heart, hidden from our view is the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, with 4 mill...