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The S-stars (or S-cluster), are a group of stars orbiting Sagittarius A*, which is considered to be a supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy. S0-2 is the most famous of these stars. It completes an entire, highly elliptical orbit around Sagittarius A* roughly every 16 years.
By tracking its motion continuously for decades, astrophysicists were able to compute that the central object must have a mass of approximately 4 million suns packed into a region smaller than our Solar System.
But why does this prove the existence of a black hole? Why not a black mass. Surely a huge object is a more acceptable answer to the phenomenon than is a hole!
Vantablack has a light absorption up to 99.965%, with a forest of microscopic vertically aligned nanotube arrays. Light gets trapped between these- bouncing continuously between them, converting into heat rather than reflecting back out.
Because virtually no light bounces off Vantablack objects, they lose all 3D surface detail, shadows, and contours. They look like a "hole in space."
The Japanese Musou Black absorbs 99.4%. of light with an ultra-porous, roughened matte structure that traps light mechanically.
Black 4.0 uses specialized pigment architecture to trap light without requiring high-tech carbon nanotube growth.
The surface of a massive black mass could replicate these effects naturally. E.G. A massive planet or star with a similar light-catching ability.
We could still employ the Schwarzschild precession to explain the movement of these stars, but when considering a solid real object, rather than an invisible hole.
Perhaps the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for their research, has mislead physicists into believing an erroneous cause. It’s a hidden physical mass which influences the paths of these stars.
#blackholes #theoretical physics #Einstein
By tracking its motion continuously for decades, astrophysicists were able to compute that the central object must have a mass of approximately 4 million suns packed into a region smaller than our Solar System.
But why does this prove the existence of a black hole? Why not a black mass. Surely a huge object is a more acceptable answer to the phenomenon than is a hole!
Vantablack has a light absorption up to 99.965%, with a forest of microscopic vertically aligned nanotube arrays. Light gets trapped between these- bouncing continuously between them, converting into heat rather than reflecting back out.
Because virtually no light bounces off Vantablack objects, they lose all 3D surface detail, shadows, and contours. They look like a "hole in space."
The Japanese Musou Black absorbs 99.4%. of light with an ultra-porous, roughened matte structure that traps light mechanically.
Black 4.0 uses specialized pigment architecture to trap light without requiring high-tech carbon nanotube growth.
The surface of a massive black mass could replicate these effects naturally. E.G. A massive planet or star with a similar light-catching ability.
We could still employ the Schwarzschild precession to explain the movement of these stars, but when considering a solid real object, rather than an invisible hole.
Perhaps the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for their research, has mislead physicists into believing an erroneous cause. It’s a hidden physical mass which influences the paths of these stars.
#blackholes #theoretical physics #Einstein
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