Is it true there is a massive black hole in the centre of our galaxy?

Answer 1

Yes...it is theorized that super-massive black holes anchor the cores of many large spiral galaxies. It is believe that the spiraling effect is the results of frame dragging by the gravity of the massive black hole. Many other black holes are known to orbit the central one at the core of the Milky Way.

Answer 2

"Because of cool interstellar dust along the line of sight, the Galactic Center cannot be studied at visible, ultraviolet or soft X-ray wavelengths. The available information about the Galactic Center comes from observations at gamma ray, hard X-ray, infrared, sub-millimetre and radio wavelengths.

Coordinates of Galactic Center were first found by Harlow Shapley in his 1918 study of the distribution of the globular clusters.

The complex radio source Sagittarius A appears to be located almost exactly at the Galactic Center, and contains an intense compact radio source, Sagittarius A*, which many astronomers believe may coincide with a supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy. Accretion of gas onto the black hole, probably involving a disk around it, would release energy to power the radio source, itself much larger than the black hole. The latter is too small to see with present instruments."

This is however a theory and not a fact, however, everything is until it is proven beyond resonable doubt...

Answer 3

Yes, it is true.

Most galaxies have a super massive black hole at their centers, and our Galaxy is no exception. Black Holes cannot be seen like we can see stars; black holes are found because when matter enters the event horizon, it releases X-rays. We can detect these X-rays with various radio telescopes, one of which is the Chandra.

Answer 4

As einstien said, space and time are like a rubber balloon streched over a jam jar, lets say a planet is a marble and the marble is ontop of the rubber bit, causing a small dent in space and time. He also said that if you go through a black hole correctly, then you will enter out the other side and into a strange place and never be able to return, and ive read in a book that the perfect shape to enter a time-tunnel (black hole) is a disc....hmm...UFOs....

Answer 5

Yes, the Milk Way has one and it has recently become active. It's hypothesised that all galaxies have one. It's exact function is unknown but all super massive black holes observed have a 2.5 proportion to its perspective galaxy. It bends light and has an enormous density.

Answer 6

It's difficult to see to the centre of our own galaxy, as we are out on the edge of it and have to peer through millions of stars, but most other galaxies that we can see side-on seem to have supermassive black holes at the centre.

Answer 7

If there are supermassive black holes on the centers of galaxies, they're going to little doubt eat up stars, yet according to threat lots extra slowly than some human beings think of. Making way for a clean Universe is in basic terms speculative without thank you to verify or refute. Making way for a clean heaven is moot, as no heaven has ever been spoke of. Chris, i do no longer think everybody has accomplished something to justify the declare of multiverses. i think of cosmologists have hit the wall, theoretically, and that they at the instant are making up countless erudite sounding rubbish with a view to advance themselves. those claims at the instant are not something yet organic mysticism with bogus, cryptic math to cause them to seem valid. and because there might properly be no thank you to verify or refute them, the two, they are categorically UNscientific, if no longer grossly incorrect. those "hypotheses" clarify no longer something. They stay clean of the conventional question of the place did all of it come from. it is astro-babble. Or cosmo-babble. (Did I in basic terms make up a pair of recent words that are mandatory in those sciences?)

Answer 8

A quick search on 'black hole milky way galaxy' revealed this (gotta luv search engines):

"The galactic center harbors a compact object of very large mass (named Sagittarius A*), strongly suspected to be a supermassive black hole. Most galaxies are believed to have a supermassive black hole at their center."

Answer 9

According to professor Stephen Hawkins there is massive black hole....he's the one to know about black holes..

Answer 10

Yes - it's believed that there's one at the centre of every galaxy.