Astronomers have concluded that growing supermassive black holes (which have millions of times the Sun's mass or more) is pretty unlikely at our location in the Milky Way Galaxy. Where do they think is the most likely place in the Milky Way for such a supermassive black hole?
A) at the outer edge of the Galaxy's disk, where there is less pull from other stars
B) where a neutron star has already formed
C) at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, where matter is more crowded
D) at the location astronomers call Cygnus X-1
E) no place in our Galaxy is likely for a really massive black hole
Section 24.7: Gravitational Wave Astronomy
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