US EditionThe Milky Way’s core may be dense dark matter, not a black hole
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For decades, scientific consensus has pointed out that Sagittarius A*, the compact object in the center of the Milky Way, is a supermassive black hole. However, a new study published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society analyzes whether it could be a different structure: a compact object composed of fermion dark matter. The research was led by Valentina Crespi of the La Plata Institute of Astrophysics, along with an i…
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mannheim24.deResearchers make a revolutionary thesis: In the center of our Milky Way, something completely different could lurk instead of a black hole.
Black matter could play a more important central role than expected. Invisible and ubiquitous in the Universe, it strongly influences gravity. Up to now, researchers linked it mainly to galactic halos and large cosmic structures. On the other hand, a recent hypothesis suggests that it is also present in the heart of the Milky Way. A compact nucleus composed of fermonic black matter would then explain the movements observed near the galactic cent…
The Milky Way’s core may be dense dark matter, not a black hole
For decades, scientists have theorized that the Milky Way Galaxy’s supermassive black hole, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is the central anchor point for the galactic disk and its surrounding regions. But now a collaborative research team from multiple countries, including scientists from Argentina, Colombia, Germany, and Italy, believes this model may not feature a black hole but rather a dense cosmological object consisting of dark matter …
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