Milky Way

The Milky Way Galaxy is our home galaxy. The Milky Way is about 100,000 light years across and 10,000 light years thick. The Milky Way carries about 200 billion stars and getting more because the milky way is joining with other small galaxys right now the Milky Way is joining with a galaxy called Barred Eliptical and in about 200 million years we will have a enormous galaxy because our galaxy is going to join with the andromeda galaxy. The Milky Way is nearly as old as the universe at 13.6 billion years old. The black hole in the middle of the Milky Way Galaxy is about the size of 2 million suns.