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Sabine | Milky Way Might Not Have a Black Hole After All

Using our observations and predictions based off of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, physicists are pretty sure that there’s a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

But according to a new paper, that prediction might be incorrect, instead, physicists claim that there’s actually a dense core of dark matter at the center of the galaxy instead. Let’s see if that makes sense, and what it might mean for physics.

Sabine Hossenfelder

PhD in physics

Sabine | Milky Way Might Not Have a Black Hole After All

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