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by eightysixfour 445 days ago
Doesn’t it have to spiral? Think of the gravity well, anything not orbiting is just falling. The only things not racing towards the black hole at the center of the galaxy are the ones that are orbiting.
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nashashmi 445 days ago
It can be directly sucked into the center. A spiral implies a lateral movement plus a centripetal force
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eightysixfour 445 days ago
Right, I guess what I am saying is if it didn't spiral, it wouldn't be a galaxy for "long." It would just be a super massive black hole.
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lolc 444 days ago
The trick to having a galaxy is for mass to fall towards the black hole and miss it all the time.
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