If large black holes are at the heart of most galaxies and they are dark by definition and we have no way to tell what their size is, couldn’t they be hiding enough mass to make up the missing mass in the universe?
Georges Kaufman Tampa, Fla.
A central black hole would not cause the visible outskirts of a galaxy to spin at roughly the same rate as the interior, as astronomers have observed.
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