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Re:James Webb Space Telescope Reveals That Most Galaxies Rot... by eightysixfour on Monday March 31, 2025 @11:16AM (#43536000)
Doesn’t it have to spiral? Think of the gravity well, anything not orbiting is just falling. The only things not racing towards the black hole at the center of the galaxy are the ones that are orbiting.
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Re:James Webb Space Telescope Reveals That Most Galaxies Rot... by nashashmi on Monday March 31, 2025 @11:58AM (#43536470)
It can be directly sucked into the center. A spiral implies a lateral movement plus a centripetal force
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Re:James Webb Space Telescope Reveals That Most Galaxies Rot... by eightysixfour on Monday March 31, 2025 @01:59PM (#43537822)
Right, I guess what I am saying is if it didn't spiral, it wouldn't be a galaxy for "long." It would just be a super massive black hole.
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Re:James Webb Space Telescope Reveals That Most Galaxies Rot... by lolc on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @09:15AM (#43546436)
The trick to having a galaxy is for mass to fall towards the black hole and miss it all the time.
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