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What do black holes orbit?

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No. There are no black holes in our solar system. Based on current models, the smallest stellar mass black holes are at the very least about 3 times the mass of the sun. Therefore, if there were a black hole in our solar system the sun would either orbit it or the two would orbit about a common center of mass.

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Simplest answer is that black holes can orbit other black holes. However the concepts of orbital motions within a galactic cluster suggest that galaxies, and by virtue of their presence - black holes, orbit within the confines of their local galactic cluster (i.e. see reference on great attractor). Then there is the notion of orbiting superclusters. However within our observable universe, there is nothing that can be definitely stated for orbits about that which we can not detect.

Still for all the motion in the universe, there is no physical center for the universe for which these orbits might be ordered. Rather such orbital considerations are random, being dependent on gravitational attraction, but consistent with the cosmological principle.

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supermassive black holes do not orbit anything. They are found in the heart of every galaxy that scientists look at. They are stationary

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They actually can. In fact, our own supermassive black hole in the Milky Way spins as well! Some SMBH's can't and some SMBH's can.

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No. There are no black holes in our own solar system. The closest known black hole is about 3,000 light years away.

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Most stellar mass black holes orbit the center of the galaxy in which they reside.

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