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How is the Milky Way held together?

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Gravity. All the stars orbit around a super massive black hole in the center of the galaxy. The black hole and all the other stars in the galaxy are gravitationally bound, but not necessarily locked, and travel through the universe together.

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By gravity - gravity from the stars, dust, gas, black holes, etc. in the Milky Way, but especially by a large amount of an unknown substance, currently called "dark matter".

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