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Do all galaxies have central black holes?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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How to Have a Galaxy Without a Black Hole

In the Milky Way, we have billions of stars and so billions of solar masses. And our black hole is only 5 million solar masses. Even though we're talking about really big objects, galaxies themselves are much, much bigger. So it's more like if our solar system lost Jupiter, right? Jupiter is a big planet. That would be kind of a big deal personally. But it wouldn't affect the dynamics of the solar system the way it would if we lost the sun,. That would be much more dramatic.

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