Portal:Current events/2002 October 17
- Bali car bombing, in which more than 180 people died.
- U.S. officials announce the existence of a clandestine North Korea nuclear weapons program, admitted to by North Korean officials.
- There is further evidence for the existence of a supermassive Milky Way galaxy. The object Sagittarius A* has now been identified as the black hole at the galactic centre by a team led by Rainer Schödel of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, who observed the behavior of the star S2which is near Sagittarius A*.