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research-and-discovery16 days ago•5 min saved

Potential Pulsar Near Galactic Center Could Probe General Relativity

Columbia University and Breakthrough Listen identify an 8.19-millisecond pulsar candidate near the Milky Way’s Sagittarius A*, with follow-up observations underway; confirming it could enable precision tests of General Relativity around the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole.

via Columbia University|

#breakthrough-listen #general-relativity #milky-way-center

science20 days ago•13 min saved

Milky Way's heart may hide a dark-matter core, not a black hole

A new study argues the Milky Way’s centre could be a dense dark-matter core wrapped in a halo, potentially mimicking a black hole’s gravity and explaining the rapid orbits of S-stars as well as the shadow seen by the Event Horizon Telescope.

via The Times|

#dark-matter #event-horizon-telescope #milky-way-center