• Question: Is there a centre of the universe?

    Asked by Zealousy to Chris on 22 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Chris Armstrong

      Chris Armstrong answered on 22 Jun 2015:

      By the big bang, and expansion theory there isn’t.

      Well not in a 3 dimensional sense. Our universe can be thought of as the surface of a balloon constantly expanding, the centre is not on the surface of that balloon. It’s in the air thats contained, there’s a theory that states our universe has a similar property and that there is a 4th dimensional centre somewhere beneath our universes surface.

      But that is both incredibly hard to conceptualize and way beyond the remit of what I understand.

      On a more local scale, the centre of the milky way is thought to be a super massive black hole.

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