What Is the Best Evidence for an Extremely Massive Black

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Multiple Choice

What is the best evidence for an extremely massive black hole in the center of the Milky Way?

• A)Huge amounts of X-rays are pouring out of the center of the galaxy.
• B)The center of our galaxy hosts a pulsar that is spinning so fast that it could only be a black hole.
• C)We observe stars vanishing in the center of the Galaxy as they are sucked into the black hole.
• D)The orbits of stars in the center of the galaxy indicate that the presence of 3- to 4-million-solar-mass object in a region no larger than our Solar System.

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