Quote Originally Posted by beachguy in thongs
This is a new one to me. I had, previously, thought that we revolved around the sun, not a black hole.
There is a supermassive black hole at the center of every galaxy. We are indeed revolving around the sun, but the whole solar system is revolving around the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermassive_black_hole