• Question: what is at the center of our galaxy i think it is a huge star

    Asked by drbrains to Allan, Angela, Diva, Harriet, Nathan on 28 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Harriet Groom

      Harriet Groom answered on 28 Jun 2012:

      People are not sure exactly what is at the centre of our galaxy but it seems to be a dense massive object. Lots of people think it is a super-massive black hole (hundreds-thousands of billions of times heavier than a star).

    • Photo: Nathan Langford

      Nathan Langford answered on 28 Jun 2012:

      Lots of galaxies have black holes at the centre of them…

    • Photo: Diva Amon

      Diva Amon answered on 5 Jul 2012:

      Hey drbrains,

      Scientists from NASA discovered in 2002 that there is a supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. We know its thee because the orbits of stars near the centre of the galaxy act as if something massive is present but there is no light at the centre indicating a black hole.

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