Birth of another Universe?
'Dark Gulping' Could Explain Black Holes
Staff Writer
posted: 22 April 2009
07:01 pm ET
No, it's not the next soft-drink campaign. "Dark gulping" is a new hypothesis about how giant black holes might have formed from collapsing dark matter.
Supermassive black holes are a mystery. These behemoths can pack the mass of billions of suns, and often lurk in the centers of big galaxies like the Milky Way. But scientists don't know how they got started nor how they gre
A new computer model suggests dark gulping is one possible route to forming these monsters. The idea involves...
