Supermassive black holes: hinting at the nature of dark matter?
Monday, March 22, 2010 - 08:56
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- 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.