Daily Question - 4/2/2024
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What celestial body is most likely to be found at the center of most galaxies?
A) A Black Hole
B) A Neutron Star
C) A Smaller Galaxy
Answer
The correct answer is Option A, a black hole. NASA and other observatories have noticed that in almost every galaxy(except for disk galaxies), there is a supermassive black hole at the center. These are types of black holes that have masses ranging from 100,000 solar masses to a billion solar masses. 1 solar mass is equivalent to the mass of ONE sun. So a black hole that has 1 billion solar masses has a mass 1 billion times that of our sun! But here’s the catch, this limit is just the average with all the black holes we’ve observed, but theoretically, black holes can have any mass, nothing is stopping them from having masses that are TRILLIONS of times greater than our sun. The reason why they form is still a mystery though. One of the current theories is that when a galaxy forms through a large nebula, there will be lots of gas that will become very compact, which would later give birth to high-mass black holes. There are other ideas too, such as a black hole star! but more on that later…
