The traditional monolithic collapse theory for the formation of the Milky Way Galaxy suggests that our galaxy formed
A) as material accreted around a massive black hole currently at the center of our galaxy.
B) from a large cloud of material that formed stars and star clusters and slowly flattened to a disk.
C) from material that had been ejected in the violent explosion of a dying galaxy.
D) as a result of mergers between several smaller groups of gas,dust,and stars.
E) as two massive galaxies collided.

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The traditional monolithic collapse theory suggests that the Milky Way formed from a large cloud of gas and dust that collapsed under gravity, forming stars and star clusters, and eventually flattened into a rotating disk.

The Traditional Monolithic Collapse Theory for the Formation of the Milky