Is it puzzling that they all seem to be aligned / orientated perpendicular to the galactic plane - they are not randomly orientated at all.
Or at least the ones we see. How would they look like if viewed from above?
Or at least the ones we see. How would they look like if viewed from above?
Indeed, our own solar system is not aligned with galactic north-south,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Motion_of_Sun,_Earth...
and that is hardly unusual or unexpected:
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/159-our-solar-syst...
And while we don't have many galactic black hole candidates, the ones we have and can see beaming are haphazardly oriented, and there's no reason why black holes should behave differently from their progenitor stars (oriented haphazardly) or other compact objects (the pulsars mentioned above).
What a few puffs of dust that have not reached an energy minimum yet do isn't important.
There is further detail from Ethan Siegel here: https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/ask-ethan-37-the-earth...
Quoting a tiny fraction that article:
The Sun appears to move *up-and-down* and in-and-out with respect to the rest of the galaxy as it revolves around the Milky Way.
Additionally, amplifying my previous comment, almost no known black hole candidates' equators are aligned with their host galaxies' thin discs, at any redshift.
>The Sun is presently located about 25-to-27,000 light years from the galactic center, and makes the shape of a simple ellipse around the galaxy.