Astronomers discovered a fascinating mystery when they studied the movementof stars in the Milky Way. The galaxy had a radius of about 50000 light-years, andaccording to Kepler's law, the speeds of stars or gases more than 50,000 light-yearsaway from the center of the Milky Way would decrease with increasing distances.But astronomers had found that their speeds did not decrease even when they weremore than a hundred thousand light-years away. This indicated that there had to bematter even in this distance but this matter did not give out any electromagneticwaves. Hence it had been named “dark matter. It was estimated that dark matterformed a halo of about 300,000 light-years in radius, which surrounded the visiblepart of the Milky Way galaxy, with a mass of more than ten times the visible part. What is that dark matter? Since it has little effect on the ordinary matter, theyare very difficult to identify, but astronomers had suggested a lot of possibilities.For example, they could be “brown dwarfs” with mass between Jupiter and theSun, or “black dwarfs”. Another possibility is that of exotic particles, such asmassive neutrinos, axions, or supersymmetric particles. However, up to now, theobservations are still not conclusive. Another mystery of the Milky Way galaxy is in its center. Stars in the galacticcenter are very densely distributed. In 1959 the astronomer Drake used radiotelescopes to measure the core density of the Milky Way and found it to be around30 stars per cubic light-year. This is 1000 times the density of stars in the regionnear the Sun. Later in the 70's, the space X-ray detectors, Uhuru and Einstein,observed very strong X-ray signals from the center of the Milky Way, and theregion was only three light-years across. From the Doppler effect of the infraredspectrum in the same region, it was found that the gas in the center formed avortex. It was spinning very fast and this represented that the mass of the centerwas that of several million solar masses. Being extremely massive and within avery small region, astronomers thought that it was a black hole, that is, one at thegalactic center of less than a few light-years across and of several million solarmasses. Similar results were found in other galaxies, such as the Andromedagalaxy. It is possible that there is a black hole at the center of every galaxy
Astronomers discovered a fascinating mystery when they studied the movementof stars in the Milky Way. The galaxy had a radius of about 50000 light-years, andaccording to Kepler's law, the speeds of stars or gases more than 50,000 light-yearsaway from the center of the Milky Way would decrease with increasing distances.But astronomers had found that their speeds did not decrease even when they weremore than a hundred thousand light-years away. This indicated that there had to bematter even in this distance but this matter did not give out any electromagneticwaves. Hence it had been named “dark matter. It was estimated that dark matterformed a halo of about 300,000 light-years in radius, which surrounded the visiblepart of the Milky Way galaxy, with a mass of more than ten times the visible part. What is that dark matter? Since it has little effect on the ordinary matter, theyare very difficult to identify, but astronomers had suggested a lot of possibilities.For example, they could be “brown dwarfs” with mass between Jupiter and theSun, or “black dwarfs”. Another possibility is that of exotic particles, such as<br>massive neutrinos, axions, or supersymmetric particles. However, up to now, theobservations are still not conclusive. Another mystery of the Milky Way galaxy is in its center. Stars in the galacticcenter are very densely distributed. In 1959 the astronomer Drake used radiotelescopes to measure the core density of the Milky Way and found it to be around30 stars per cubic light-year. This is 1000 times the density of stars in the regionnear the Sun. Later in the 70's, the space X-ray detectors, Uhuru and Einstein,observed very strong X-ray signals from the center of the Milky Way, and theregion was only three light-years across. From the Doppler effect of the infraredspectrum in the same region, it was found that the gas in the center formed avortex. It was spinning very fast and this represented that the mass of the centerwas that of several million solar masses. Being extremely massive and within avery small region, astronomers thought that it was a black hole, that is, one at thegalactic center of less than a few light-years across and of several million solarmasses. Similar results were found in other galaxies, such as the Andromedagalaxy. It is possible that there is a black hole at the center of every galaxy
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Astronomers discovered a fascinating mystery when they studied the movementof stars in the Milky Way. The galaxy had a radius of about 50000 light-years, andaccording to Kepler's law, the speeds of stars or gases more than 50,000 light-yearsaway from the center of the Milky Way would decrease with increasing distances. But astronomers had found that their speeds did not decrease even when they weremore than a hundred thousand light-years away. This indicated that there had to bematter even in this distance but this matter did not give out any electromagneticwaves. Hence it had been named “dark matter. It was estimated that dark matterformed a halo of about 300,000 light-years in radius, which surrounded the visiblepart of the Milky Way galaxy, with a mass of more than ten times the visible part. What is that dark matter? Since it has little effect on the ordinary matter, theyare very difficult to identify, but astronomers had suggested a lot of possibilities. For example, they could be “brown dwarfs” with mass between Jupiter and theSun, or “black dwarfs”. Another possibility is that of exotic particles, such as<br>massive neutrinos, axions, or supersymmetric particles. However, up to now, theobservations are still not conclusive. Another mystery of the Milky Way galaxy is in its center. Stars in the galacticcenter are very densely distributed. In 1959 the astronomer Drake used radiotelescopes to measure the core density of the Milky Way and found it to be around30 stars per cubic light-year. This is 1000 times the density of stars in the regionnear the Sun. Later in the 70's, the space X-ray detectors, Uhuru and Einstein,observed very strong X-ray signals from the center of the Milky Way, and theregion was only three light-years across. From the Doppler effect of the infraredspectrum in the same region, it was found that the gas in the center formed avortex. It was spinning very fast and this represented that the mass of the centerwas that of several million solar masses. Being extremely massive and within avery small region, astronomers thought that it was a black hole, that is, one at thegalactic center of less than a few light-years across and of several million solarmasses. Similar results were found in other galaxies, such as the Andromedagalaxy. It is possible that there is a black hole at the center of every galaxy
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