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by nashashmi 444 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 443 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 443 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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