Billions Of Stellar-Mass Black Holes In Our Galaxy?
Researchers have found what appears to be a stellar-mass black hole in a stable planet-like orbit around a star only 1K light years from Earth. Finding one this close has major implications for the Dark Matter enigma and astrophysics in general.
Here’s a brief easy-read discussion:
Here’s some bottom line comments:
“Astronomers expect the Milky Way to harbor between 100 million and a billion black holes with masses between a few and 100 times the sun’s. But most of those black hole are invisible. “If it’s lonely out there without a companion, you’ll never find it,” says astrophysicist Thomas Rivinius of the European Southern Observatory in Santiago, Chile.” “There could be many other unseen black holes of similar mass in the Milky Way, says ESO astronomer Marianne Heida, who is based in Garching, Germany. “It would be a little bit too convenient, if there’s only one in the Milky Way, that it’s right next door,” she says.”
Actual preprint to be published in Astronomy and Astrophysics:
Now consider the fact that if these bound stellar-mass black holes are very common, it is likely that there are far more unbound “rogue” black holes populating every galaxy in the observable universe. Crucially they would not have been seen before. These unbound black holes could only be observed by slightly more sensitive X-ray observatories than we have in space today. The next advanced X-ray telescope that gets launched should be able to observe them.
This is what Discrete Scale Relativity has predicted since 1987 (Astrophysical Journal, 322(1), 34–36, 1987): the Dark Matter is composed of stellar-mass primordial black holes with the broad mass spectrum and all physical properties such as charges and spins exactly specified by DSR.
Links to predictions and the DSR website are near the end of the link below.