Supermassive black holes: hinting at the nature of dark matter?
22 Mar 2010, 11:35 UTC
Felipe Esquivel Reed
About 23% of the Universe is made up of mysterious ‘dark matter’, invisible material only detected through its gravitational influence on its surroundings. Now two astronomers based at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have found a hint of the way it behaves near black holes. Their results appear in a letter in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Image: Artist's impression of the distortion of spacetime by a supermassive black hole at the centre of...
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