"Dark matter, though a cornerstone of modern cosmology, remains hypothetical. Its existence was inferred after astronomers realized that the visible, ordinary matter contained in galaxies wouldn't exert enough gravity to hold themselves together, given the speeds that galaxies rotate at. In their models, dark matter provides the gravitational glue that keeps these vast realms from flying apart."
It is a caramel centre.
Where is my research grant?
If there’s enough mass there to imply a large-enough Swartchild radius, even if it was dark matter, I think you’d still end up with a black hole.
1) You are not allowed to question the science.
2) The science is often made up because someone thinks they have a swell idea.
Same guys telling us all about climate change??
Dark matter just means something we have no proof exists but it would be whatever can explain the way everything else is behaving.
Kind of interesting to see “scientists” make something up and talk as if it really exists.
And while they are at it, the massive black hole they say is at the center of the galaxy, might not exist.
In Deliverance when Burt Reynolds can’t find the river, the hillbillies shout at him: “It’s only the biggest Fing river in the whole gd state! “
This would be bigger.
Finally, this is being admitted. The inability of gravity alone to hold the spinning structures of the universe together has been known for a VERY LONG TIME.
The scientific community has known this but kept it out of mainstream conscious and basic education because it contradicted the current best model. Can’t have people challenging the science, we might start asking questions they don’t like.
Post Modern Science is more cult and religion than a pure pursuit of knowledge and understanding. One must believe in the approved tenants to move up the hierarchy.
> .a colossal clump of dark matter,
Nougat? Dark chocolate?
There’s got to be a black hole with anti matter on the other side to balance us out.
Why can’t the supermassive black hole account for all the missing matter that would make a spiral galaxy work? It’s supermassive, duh.
Hmmm, so the science isn’t settled?
"Thought to" are the key words, an admission that they don't know what they're talking about.
They just don’t want to admit it’s Donald Trump 😅
All sorts of experiments have failed to find any sign of Dark Matter. Although neutrinos don’t have much rest mass the Universe has been cranking out massive amounts of them. Once made they are almost impossible to change into anything else. My theory is something slows them down and they eventually go into orbits just like ordinary matter.
It’s new!
The only place we know for sure that there are any “clumps” of dark matter is in the heads of the so-called scientists who peddle this crap...
Must be time for project renewals...