Astronomers Have Established That Quasars and Active Galaxies Have a Lot

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Multiple Choice

Astronomers have established that quasars and active galaxies have a lot of mass at their centers in a very small volume of space. Why can't this mass be in the form of a cluster of stars that are quite close to each other?

• A) all the clusters of stars are at the outer edges of galaxies; we have never seen any clusters of stars toward the middle of galaxies
• B) things at the centers of galaxies all move so fast, the stars in the cluster would be launched outward and would never remain at the center
• C) to fit as much matter into the cluster as we observe, the stars in the cluster must be so close to each other they would merge into a superstar and soon collapse into a black hole
• D) we could easily observe such a star cluster in distant galaxies, and we don't see them
• E) none of the above

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