I'm sure that EM influences also have an effect, but gravity does seem to play a role in those movement patterns (regardless of the cause of gravity) and the movements are well explained by gravity. The two massive directional changes seem to be very congruent with a gravitational well at that X point.Metryq wrote:Hold on a second—there may be something other than gravity influencing the movement of those stars. I'm sure I don't have to remind you of why Dark Matter was imagined. Similarly, we know of mechanisms other than the Doppler effect that can produce color shifts, and there are far simpler ways to explain powerful emissions of UV, x-rays, etc. than by positing super-duper-ultra-massive black holes.Michael Mozina wrote:If we look at the center of our own galaxy over a period of years, we observe that stars near the core do seem to be orbiting a very dense object which causes dramatic changes to their orbits.
Let's not confuse observations with conclusions.
(Granted, you said "seem to be orbiting".)
Keep in mind that I'm open to the possibility that gravity is an EM related event, but even still the amount of mass may have a fundamental influence on that relationship.
I don't think we can logically rule out the possibility of very massive objects even if we can rule out "singularities" as such.
Granted, I also believe that a *massive* amount of current is running through that object, so it may not be as massive as the mainstream would like to believe, but there does seem to be a massive object located at the core of our galaxy, and that wouldn't surprise me in the first place. It's just a very large "homopolar generator".