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To: MtnClimber
I guess at the center of every galaxy is a black hole, or at least a neutron star.

Such objects (if that's the right word for them) affect space for hundreds of thousands — even millions — of light years around them.

Such power stuns the imagination. It is only through the infinite scalability of mathematics that we can begin to comprehend it.

4 posted on 07/11/2024 1:24:28 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Steely Tom

Most galaxies have supermassive black holes at their center, but some do not. One reason is the supermassive black hole is slingshot out at high speed due to a sort of lopsided collision with another. But every galaxy should have at least some stellar-mass black holes which do not influence space for light years around them. Neutron stars are also stellar-mass remnants but not massive enough to form a black hole.


7 posted on 07/11/2024 1:51:54 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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