and prove it.
2007-01-02 10:21:54 · 12 answers · asked by Darth Vader 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Probably, but impossible to prove.
It could be a massive neutron star instead, or a black hole that loses energy and therefore mass to the rest of the universe and fluctuates between black hole and neutron star.
2007-01-03 02:33:16 · answer #1 · answered by Feeling Mutual 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, there is a Super Massive Black Hole at the center of the Galaxy. Astronomers have seen stars orbiting nothing, to only later find out they are orbiting the black hole. Every star in the galaxy revolves around this black hole. Energy has been detected coming from this black hole.
2007-01-02 13:33:27 · answer #2 · answered by bldudas 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've watched a billion doumetarys talking about supermassive black holes and how they've not be able to find a galaxie without one in the center. And now they wonder why. Ex. Black holes cause quasars which are found in the center of most young galaxies.
2007-01-02 13:25:33 · answer #3 · answered by ------- 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's believed there is. Astronomers recently learned, for example, that the mysterious dark matter saturating our galaxy is actually “warm,” and they verified by various indirect means the existence of a supermassive black hole at its center. Studies have also shown that the Milky Way is more massive, more crowded and its stars more lonely than previously thought.
2007-01-02 12:20:55 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes the is. Its a superblack hole. Is mass is about 2 billion times our suns mass. There is a star ( I dont know the exact name of it)
that is real close to it, but not so close that it gets sucked in. By observing how fast it orbits the center of the galaxy, is one way astronomers have determined this to be true. Also black holes emit huge amounts of xray energy when gobbling things up that they have been able to observe as well.
2007-01-02 11:33:49 · answer #5 · answered by llloki00001 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yep. We can see the matter that's falling into the black hole emitting x-rays (look up the Chandra space telescope for images), and we can see the gravitational effects of a massive invisible object.
2007-01-02 10:25:53 · answer #6 · answered by eri 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep. A big one. It weighs as much as 3 million suns. Other galaxies have them as massive as 3 billion suns.
2007-01-02 11:25:11 · answer #7 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. But there is a brown hole in the center of Uranus....
2007-01-02 10:29:36 · answer #8 · answered by Mike R 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yep and i have been there
You should go with me some time
2007-01-02 10:30:00 · answer #9 · answered by sacgirl92 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
no, because if there were. we would not be here. as far as the universe goes....that's a different question!
2007-01-02 10:27:43 · answer #10 · answered by cowboybabeeup 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋