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the spot everything orbits and nobody can quite agree where it is.

means The middle point of something — the place equidistant from the edges, or by extension the focal point where activity, attention, or importance gathers.

from From the Greek 'kentron,' meaning a sharp point or goad — specifically the fixed leg of a drafting compass, the still spike around which the pencil swings to draw a circle. Latin borrowed it as 'centrum,' and it came into English through French as 'centre.' So the word literally remembers the pivot: the one point that holds steady while everything else rotates around it.

earth's core
As hot as the Sun's surface, roughly 5400 Celsius
mass center
A high jumper's can pass below the bar they clear
galactic heart
Hides a black hole four million times the Sun
shifting point
USA's population center drifts west yearly toward Missouri
for instance

madison square garden — arena in new york city, opened 1968, hosts 20,000+ for events

barclays center — arena in brooklyn, opened 2012, home of brooklyn nets

united center — arena in chicago, opened 1994, home of chicago bulls

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