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pilebaina: 4 months ago

What's that big light at the center of the Milky Way?

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Cuppy: 4 months ago | Last edited at 7:59PM on 1/27/2013

A supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A is believed to be at the Galactic Center. There is really stong evidence to support that.

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Wildviper: 4 months ago

So the light given off is probably a star orbiting around it, right?

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Cuppy: 4 months ago

Everything in our galaxy orbits the Galactic Center. The light is probably a high concentration of stars.

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Wildviper: 4 months ago

Hmm. I'll edit my answer.

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Wildviper: 4 months ago | Last edited at 8:03PM on 1/27/2013

Probably a star (or a 'high concentration of stars'(--Cuppy)) orbiting around the Supermassive blackhole.

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spike0814: 4 months ago

the sun...?

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Wildviper: 4 months ago

The sun isn't at the center of the Milky Way.

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spike0814: 4 months ago

well they said bright light idk. i'm not a space expert. lol

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Rosie999: 4 months ago via Android

the sun.

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Wildviper: 4 months ago

The sun isn't at the center of the Milky Way.

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Rosie999: 3 months ago via Android

oh well.

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Rosie999: 3 months ago via Android

not the end of the world.

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BrittanyDancess: 4 months ago via Android

Supernova?

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dancer27: 4 months ago

Earth, DUHHH lol jk. Look at the other answers because this one is useless

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bradymiller: 4 months ago

Look up black hole on wikipedia. See the picture? It's stars orbiting THAT. It makes my hair stand up on end.

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adolf_oliver_bush: 4 months ago

its called the galactic rift
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Rift_%28astronomy%29

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ziebugg: 4 months ago via Android

its a black hole its looks like star bc light particles and stars themselves
bend around the massive gravitational pull

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olpaint70: 4 months ago via iPhone

Billions of stars so far away they look like one big bright light. It's like looking at the headlights of a car in the far distance, looks like one light, same principle

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