Evidence seems to point to a large black hole at the center of the Milky Way. So gravity is the answer. As you probably know, black holes have such extreme gravity that not even light can escape once it crosses a particular point. It is interesting to look at pictures of other spiral galaxcies in which we can view them from different angles. At the center there is usually a bright glow. This is from stars being sucked into the black hole.
Gravity is created by the bending of spacetime from mass. A good analogy is to imagine putting a basketball at the center of a blanket that is being held out by people on each corner. If you place the basketball at the center of the blanket, it will bend the blanket. If you then take a baseball and set it on the blanket, it will go toward the basketball. Now, it is harder to imagine this in 3-dimensions, since the blanket is a two dimensional plane.
2006-07-07 20:21:56
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answered by Mike G 1
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Since the milky way galaxy is a spiral galaxy it rotates around a super massive black hole,drawing every bit of mass towards it's singularity.It was created to due to gravity pulling together all the cooled matter near the beginning stages of the big bang...tom science
2006-07-08 03:13:01
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answered by Anonymous
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God's design of the milky way as a spiral galaxy seems to hold the galaxy intact.
2006-07-08 03:09:41
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answered by Cordelia 4
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gravity holds the milky way together, and it was greated by a clustering of dust particals billions of years ago. But, if you mean the candy, carmel and a facture.
2006-07-08 03:08:01
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answered by boomer 3
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gravity holds the milky way together.
2006-07-08 03:07:48
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answered by noshyuz 4
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Gravity.
2006-07-08 11:27:45
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answered by Eric X 5
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Gravity does, but some scientists believe that a massive gigantic black hole is present at the centre
2006-07-08 06:36:18
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answered by Anonymous
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Space Super Glue. It's great for sticking intergalactic things together. Brought to you by MONSANTO
2006-07-08 03:18:59
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answered by yahoooo reject 3
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