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Dark Matter Outweighs Visible Matter, Virginia Tech Physicists Report
Research indicates dark matter, an invisible substance that outweighs all visible matter, clusters around supermassive black holes. This finding, supported by an astrophysical technique called echo mapping, offers new evidence for the long-held theory and helps explain discrepancies in observed gravitational forces.
Evidence is mounting for the existence of dark matter, and Virginia Tech physicists have now offered compelling support for a long-held theory: that this invisible substance clusters around supermassive black holes. Researchers used an astrophysical technique called echo mapping to analyze 14 distant galaxies, revealing five cases where mass increased with distance faster than visible matter alone could explain. Dark matter gathers like a “thickening cloud of black smoke” around these cosmic behemoths, a…
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