Posted on 08/29/2016 9:05:38 PM PDT by sparklite2
The center of the Milky Way galaxy is currently a quiet place where a supermassive black hole slumbers, only occasionally slurping small sips of hydrogen gas. But it wasn't always this way.
A new study shows that 6 million years ago, when the first human ancestors known as hominins walked the Earth, our galaxy's core blazed forth furiously. The evidence for this active phase came from a search for the galaxy's missing mass.
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“The center of the Milky Way galaxy is currently a quiet place where a supermassive black hole slumbers”
I thought the center was called ‘nougat’.
I presume this has passed us by already, he said hopefully.
I’m surprised cosmologists would just plug-in this type of data to get this hypothesis.
I suspect that the better part of matter in the universe is incorporated in black holes that we don’t know anything about, and as detection methods improve, I suspect strongly that dark matter will fall by the wayside.
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