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#536 - Dr Becky Smethurst - The Secret World Of Black Holes
Modern Wisdom
Is the Black Hole What's Holding the Galaxy Together?
Supermassive black holes in the middle of almost all galaxies. All of the galaxies are around the point in the middle where the black hole is. The galaxy always outweighs the supermassive black hole in the center. If you removed it, nothing would actually happen to the galaxy. It would actually hold itself together under what's known as self-gravity. And so that self-gravity of the galaxy is enough to stop everything from falling into the black hole.
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