ev0| Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 I would also like to point out the whole reason that our galaxy is in that swirling shape is because of the super massive black hole at the center creating massive tidal forces of sucking stuff. It contains about 3 million solar masses worth of material already. If you haven't figured it out already you are very small. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincent Posted August 19, 2005 Author Share Posted August 19, 2005 Here is a cool link i found, that explains galactic rotation, What ev0| says appears to be correct. http://www.astro.queensu.ca/~dursi/dm-tutorial/rot-vel.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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