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Old August 17th, 2005, 06:16 PM
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Default Re: OT: Lost in the Galaxy? No wonder.

Oh my God..... So they actually know that there's a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy? I've been telling people that we don't know squat about the center of the galaxy for years now, and now it appears that we are not only part of the accretion disk of a supermassive black hole, but that there is a bar - a bar of ancient red supergiants near what is apparently the event horizon?

Oh my God. So..... if we have evolved on a world orbiting a star in the accretion disk - accretion disk - of a black hole, then wouldn't that mean that other spiral galaxies - and I use that term lightly now - are merely accretion disks? And what about non-spiral galaxies, like the Magellanic Clouds?

I think my brain has just burnt out.
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