WELL, THIS IS INTERESTING!
Hey, Space Placers!
AI image of our Milky Way galaxy. The innermost stars in the galaxy are depicted as moving at near relativistic speeds (at a significant fraction of the speed of light) around a dense core of dark matter, with no black hole at the center. The idea of dark matter in place of our galaxy's central supermassive black hole also explains the surprisingly fast speeds of stars at the outskirts of our galaxy.
Image via Valentina Crespi et al./ Royal Astronomical Society vis EarthSKy.org.
New research about our Milky Way Galaxy, specifically what resides at the very center of our galaxy, has come up with a interesting theory.
Instead of a 4.4 million solar mass black hole called SgrA* causing what astronomers have been observing for decades at the galaxy's center, perhaps a "a supermassive compact object composed of self-gravitating fermionic dark matter (DM)" could be the cause.
I emailed UCLA for comment, I will share the response if provided.
Sky Guy In VA
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