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They spotted a bunch of stars orbiting around in the center at crazy speeds around what appears to be nothing but the only thing that could have that much mass to swing those stars around like moons would have to be insanely dense which could only be justified by being a super massive black hole

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Q: Why do the asronomers hypothesize that thete is a supermassive black hole at the center of the milky way?
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