What do you thinks is at the center of our galaxy?

[Dominatus]

Yeah... So the answer is still Supermassive black hole. Intense gravity, Hawking radiation escaping, shows same properties we observed with other black holes... I would say you can't dispute what the facts suggest, but obviously that would be false. Just ask a politician.

[Bigcheecho]

THE URFS IS IN TEH CENTA OF TEH GALAXY!!!!!! TEH BEBLES SEZ SO!

In all seriousness, though, I'll probably jump in the "Black Hole" bandwagon, as it's the only feasible thing capable of having stars orbit it. Of course, I would allow people to believe it's the Earth that's in the center of the universe, but yet try to prove them wrong.

[Whirligig Girl]

I thought it was the guy who developed Spore. I could have sworn I went to the center of the galaxy and met him there

Nah , will wright invented Spore, Steve's the guy in the centre.

[Soda Popinski]

Not God.

Because God wouldn't need a starship.

[Tex_NL]

Yeah... So the answer is still Supermassive black hole. Intense gravity, Hawking radiation escaping, shows same properties we observed with other black holes... I would say you can't dispute what the facts suggest, but obviously that would be false. Just ask a politician.

Hold on for a minute. Hawking radiation has NEVER been detected. It is still pure theoretical.

It has been detected under lab conditions in an artificial black hole but never from a natural scource.

[K^2]

It has been detected under lab conditions in an artificial black hole but never from a natural scource.

There is no such thing as an artificial black hole. Experiments were done on analogous system, but there is some doubt on whether they are reliable.

Sag A* is, however, a strong radio source. That might have been the radiation Dominatus was thinking of. It is consistent with what we expect from a black hole, yes.

[Tex_NL]

How you call it depends on the source you refer to. What really matters doesn't change; it's artificial, man made, not natural.

[K^2]

How you call it depends on the source you refer to. What really matters doesn't change; it's artificial, man made, not natural.

It's not a black hole. It's just a system that allows radiation to escape by a similar mechanism. There is no event horizon there.

[Nuke]

pure death.

if not from spaghettification the radiation would cook you.

Edited December 9, 2013 by Nuke

[DisarmingBaton5]

A very large cow.

Maybe a chocolate bar as well...

[qeveren]

A really big flywheel that's used to keep the galaxy spinning, of course.

[ProjectXMark1]

A perfect place to install a Dyson Sphere:

Black holes have large accretion discs.

The pressure in one of those discs is high enough to cause a good deal of heat.

The discs are hot enough to emit decent amounts of light.

As a result, accretion discs are one of the most energetic locations in the known universe.

Stick a few large photovoltaics down, enjoy an awesome and likely utterly impractical power source.

[TechnicalK3rbal]

Chinese believe that their forbidden city is the center of our galaxy.

Did you join the forum just to reply to that? Or was it just your first post?

[Lukaszenko]

Did you join the forum just to reply to that? Or was it just your first post?

THIS will be MY first post Just wanted to jump on the black hole bandwagon....same thing that is probably at the center of every galaxy. It's the best-fit model.

[jebisanaggie]

There must be hundreds of astronomers around who would happily give a few years of their life to witness that show firsthand.

Just look at S14... it must be bleeding off significant mass already

Seriously. Anybody care to calculate its velocity at periapsis?

[Marcuzzi]

.....Jeb

[TheBedla]

The Grox, of course.

[Commissioner Tadpole]

The Grox, of course.

Afaik the Grox only live around the core. :B

[sgtscuba]

The Space Kraken obviously, it also explains why the universe is expanding - its trying to get away from it.