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I heard it can be hard to see our center black hole because we are on the Galaxy disk so we have to look through a lot of light pollution and dust things to see it?

Yeah, I was researching further and found this[0] SE question. Seems to also say the same thing that there is a lot of "space dust" between here and there.

[0]: https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/30339/why-not-...

Sure, but at these long wavelengths the dust is effectively transparent.

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