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Could we detect dark matter by black holes gaining unexplained mass?
Dark matter is said to interact only gravitationally, so it won't commonly form black holes by itself. But if a black hole is already there, and dark matter encounters the event horizon, it should go ...
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Is the dark matter/baryonic matter ratio the same in galaxies with supermassive black holes?
My hypothesis is that if the ratio of dark matter/matter in galaxies with supermassive(weighing billions of suns) black holes are higher the black hole itself would be made of a large portion of dark ...
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Could there be dark matter black holes?
Could dark matter compress and form black holes? Since dark matter is even more abundant than normal matter, a dark matter black hole should not be rare...right?
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