• Question: Will the supermassive black hole in the centre of our galaxy eventually drag the entire milky way into it?

    Asked by Matt715 to Scott on 15 Nov 2017.
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      Scott Melville answered on 15 Nov 2017:


      Good question! Not for a very very long time – because the whole Milky Way rotates very fast, we’re basically in orbit around the black hole (just like how Earth orbits the Sun, and satellites orbit Earth). So I think we’re safe for now 🙂 It’s more likely that we’ll crash into some other galaxy (that would be very messy!)

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