Our solar system mostly revolves around the sun on the same axis (apart from Pluto). Our galaxy does the same (along with other galaxies). Why? Gravity is linear?

Would it matter if we tried to escape the sun’s gravity by going “up?”

  • @SzethFriendOfNimi
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    2 months ago

    It’s like how the earth bulges out at the equator.

    The momentum pulls them out, gravity pulls it back. Similar thing at the solar and galactic planes.

    They “bulge” relatively to the spin of the material over time and the clumps of material then forms planets along that general plane.

    From the aboves video you can see this at 44seconds

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCkhEu3lYNc&t=44s

    And a relevant PBS Spacetime video

    Why is the Earth Round and the Milky Way Flat? | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios

    But the biggest reason is the way gasses form in space. As noted in the above video at the 8:45 mark. Gasses aren’t able to fall back into the center along their axis of spin because of their momentum. But the gassed above and below the plane can move towards the gathering material there by gravity and so it flattens out.

    https://youtu.be/Aj6Kc1mvsdo?t=8m45s

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      Ah, that makes sense.

      Once you have a slight more mass in any plane, eventually everything will move to that plane.