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How can a 2 million pound mass just exist?
Most astronomers now concede that a black hole heavyweight lurks in the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy. Latest estimates are that it weighs in at a whopping 2 million times the mass of the sun.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Quantum Singularities exist in the center of every galazy its what holds them together.
They merge it they get close and become larger.
- 1 decade ago
That's actually small for a supermassive black hole. No one really know's for sure how they form, but it didn't just pop into existence one day. Most theories say that the supermassive black holes form because the centers of galaxies have a lot of stars in a small area. When they collide they collapse down into a black hole which consumes anything which gets close enough.
Other theories can be found in the links below/
Source(s): http://library.thinkquest.org/25715/formation/supe... http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/blackhole_hi... http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answer... - BigfootLv 71 decade ago
That makes sense, The galaxy has to orbit around something, otherwise there would be no Milky Way galaxy, just a bunch of free floating stars.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
2 million times the mass of the sun is a LOT heavier than 2 million pounds.
The sun itself weighs a LOT more than 2 million lbs. Heck, there are man made machines that weigh more than that.
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