Submitted by johnkoubeck t3_10hwu8h in Futurology
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FuturologyBot t1_j5b17sz wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/johnkoubeck:
Submission Statement: further exploration of the star systems orbiting the black hole at the center of our galaxy can help us to better understand the universe and its complexities. It is clear that these star systems provide insight into how galaxies form and evolve over time, as well as how they interact with one another. Additionally, understanding these star systems offers clues to how a black hole behaves at the center of a galaxy.
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UnifiedQuantumField t1_j5bkmr1 wrote
>Orbiting the Black Hole at the Center of our Galaxy
A bit of speculation:
What if we accept the Dark Forest explanation for the Fermi Paradox?
In that case, a Black Hole might be viewed as evidence of a technologically advanced civilization. How so?
They find a way to bend light so that their space cannot be viewed by any external observer. And all EM signals (potentially) generated by such a civilization would be contained within the event horizon.
And we seem to find more/larger black holes near the centers of galaxies, where stellar density is higher... and the distances between stars is shorter (fractions of a single light year) Just the kind of place you might expect an interstellar civilization to develop first.
warplants t1_j5bm3s7 wrote
To the best of our knowledge, literally every single galaxy in the universe has a supermassive black hole at its center. So no, they are not at all evidence of a civilization.
4chairz t1_j5dq64e wrote
Is there an even bigger black hole at the center of the universe?
warplants t1_j5e7n7h wrote
The universe is infinite, there is no center (as far as we can tell, anyway.) If you’re talking about the observable universe, the Earth is in the center since that’s where the observations are being made from.
rixtil41 t1_j5goj2j wrote
I prefer the everyone lives in full dive solution.
johnkoubeck OP t1_j5aw7gm wrote
Submission Statement: further exploration of the star systems orbiting the black hole at the center of our galaxy can help us to better understand the universe and its complexities. It is clear that these star systems provide insight into how galaxies form and evolve over time, as well as how they interact with one another. Additionally, understanding these star systems offers clues to how a black hole behaves at the center of a galaxy.