What if SgrA* Is Not Actually a Supermassive Black Hole?
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Top Comments (10)
If a clump of dark matter got dense enough, why wouldn't it collapsed into a black hole identical to other black holes?
We need something similar to "It's never aliens" but like "It is never Dark matter"
I’m glad I’m not the only one having dark matter fatigue 😂.
It's probably creamy, stretchy caramel and fluffy chocolate-malt nougat. The Mars Candy company has never kept ingredients of the center of any Milky Way a secret.
What would prevent dark matter from collapsing into a black hole? We don't even know what it is (assuming it even exists), so pretending we can predict its properties is silliness.
Inside the milky way center: "They are scanning us again, what do we do?" "Uh just... Uh fly casually"
2:41 we're too close to the black hole and we experience time dilated effects from the black hole.
Even if there’s a very dense concentration of dark matter at the center of the Milky Way, that doesn’t automatically mean there isn’t a black hole there too. We already have extremely strong evidence that Sagittarius A* behaves like a supermassive black hole: stellar orbits show relativistic precession, we’ve measured gravitational redshift, and the Event Horizon Telescope image is consistent with an event horizon and photon orbit structure. Any alternative has to reproduce all of that, not just the mass. Dense dark matter clustering at the galactic center is totally plausible — simulations even predict dark matter “spikes” around black holes. But that scenario naturally leads to a hybrid model: a supermassive black hole at the core, surrounded by a dense dark matter concentration. The black hole dominates the spacetime geometry at small radii; the dark matter modifies the larger-scale mass distribution. So even if dark matter condenses strongly in galactic center, the simplest explanation that fits all observations is still that there’s a supermassive black hole there; possibly embedded in an unusually dense dark matter environment (not replaced by one).
We have a lot to learn
Man I love my daily Anton!! I think I actually learn things that are worth learning here. Thanks buddy
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Top Comments (10)
If a clump of dark matter got dense enough, why wouldn't it collapsed into a black hole identical to other black holes?
We need something similar to "It's never aliens" but like "It is never Dark matter"
I’m glad I’m not the only one having dark matter fatigue 😂.
It's probably creamy, stretchy caramel and fluffy chocolate-malt nougat. The Mars Candy company has never kept ingredients of the center of any Milky Way a secret.
What would prevent dark matter from collapsing into a black hole? We don't even know what it is (assuming it even exists), so pretending we can predict its properties is silliness.
Inside the milky way center: "They are scanning us again, what do we do?" "Uh just... Uh fly casually"
2:41 we're too close to the black hole and we experience time dilated effects from the black hole.
Even if there’s a very dense concentration of dark matter at the center of the Milky Way, that doesn’t automatically mean there isn’t a black hole there too. We already have extremely strong evidence that Sagittarius A* behaves like a supermassive black hole: stellar orbits show relativistic precession, we’ve measured gravitational redshift, and the Event Horizon Telescope image is consistent with an event horizon and photon orbit structure. Any alternative has to reproduce all of that, not just the mass. Dense dark matter clustering at the galactic center is totally plausible — simulations even predict dark matter “spikes” around black holes. But that scenario naturally leads to a hybrid model: a supermassive black hole at the core, surrounded by a dense dark matter concentration. The black hole dominates the spacetime geometry at small radii; the dark matter modifies the larger-scale mass distribution. So even if dark matter condenses strongly in galactic center, the simplest explanation that fits all observations is still that there’s a supermassive black hole there; possibly embedded in an unusually dense dark matter environment (not replaced by one).
We have a lot to learn
Man I love my daily Anton!! I think I actually learn things that are worth learning here. Thanks buddy