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by wolfendin 1030 days ago
> Isn't all of this explained by the fact that we have a supermassive black hole at the middle of the galaxy?

> We perceive distant time to run slow because we're falling into a black hole.

We’re not falling into it

The mass of Sagittarius A* is 4.1 million solar masses while the mass of the galaxy is 1.5 trillion solar masses.

Our orbital velocity easily exceeds the necessary velocity to orbit Sagittarius A* at our current distance.

You feel more gravity from a paperclip a meter away than you do from Sag A*

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We're in the gravity well of not just Sag A but all the mass that orbits Sag A.