Milky Way’s “black hole” may not exist: New dark matter theory challenges supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at the galactic centre |
Astronomers have proposed a theoretical model suggesting that the object at the centre of the Milky Way, widely identified as the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, could instead be explained by an extremely dense concentration of dark matter. The idea challenges the long-standing interpretation based on observations of fast-moving stars near the galactic core, which…