Core Intelligence Points
- The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy.
- Our Sun lies far from the center.
- The galaxy rotates slowly.
Full Technical Analysis
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Type
Barred spiral
Diameter
≈100,000 light-years
Stars
100–400 billion
Center
Supermassive black hole
DATA_VERIFIED
The Milky Way is the galaxy we live in. From Earth, we see it as a faint band of light stretching across the sky — this is our edge-on view of its disk.
The galaxy has a central bulge, spiral arms, and a bar-like structure through its core. At the very center lies a supermassive black hole, around which everything else orbits.
Our Sun is located in a quiet region of one spiral arm, far from the crowded and energetic galactic center. One full orbit around the Milky Way takes the Sun about 230 million years.