96. What is the role of irregularities in the solar system in terms of theories of its origin?
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Our Solar System is too small to have a irregularity like a Black Hole. But it´s thought that our Galaxy like others in the Universe have got one in the middle of them. If we suppose that our Solar System had one Black Hole in the past, we can not tell that this irregularity has been the cause of the our Solar System. Some scientists think that Black Holes explode when they die and they also eject matter from time to time that could eventually turn out into the planets.
Any good theory on the origin of our solar system must account for the patterns we see (all the planets orbit the Sun in the same direction, etc.) and must account for the exceptions to the patterns (almost all of the large moons orbit their planets in the same way as the planet rotates [except Triton], almost all planets rotate in the same way that they orbit the Sun [except Uranus and Venus], almost all moons are significantly smaller than their planets [except our Moon], etc.) The exceptions can al be explained by collisions with leftover planetessimals (comets and asteroids).
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