For Those Astrophysicists Among Us

[andromedaaudio]

Well i dont know off course , it just boggles me that the whole milky way is rotating around a black hole that has " only " 4 million solar masses .
The biggest star in the milky way (known) is 1 billion solarmasses .
The answer must be that there is a lot of heavy dark matter in the center otherwise it makes no sense

 

[Steve williams]

Well i dont know off course , it just boggles me that the whole milky way is rotating around a black hole that has " only " 4 million solar masses .
The biggest star in the milky way (known) is 1 billion solarmasses .
The answer must be that there is a lot of heavy dark matter in the center otherwise it makes no sense

There's dark matter everywhere

 

[ack]

Yes, prominent theories have all visible matter in the universe live within dark matter - which is therefore everywhere, plus defines the boundaries of space. They also claim that gravity is an attribute of dark matter, and without it nothing would stick to anything, and no light would be able to travel. Many open questions exist, like obviously what is dark matter, but also more importantly who's feeding dark matter into the universe to explain the accelerating nature of it, and how does it "push" the limits of space. Fascinating questions.

 

[Steve williams]

Peter, one day you and I need to sit down and chat cosmology as I have asked myself the same questions

 

[ack]

Yeap, I will take another trip to Silicon Valley some day...

 

[NorthStar]

Silicon Valley; dark matter?