Immortal' stars may exist in the heart of the Milky Way

[Admin]

New research suggests some stars at the very heart of the Milky Way may have found an alternative fuel in the form of annihilating dark matter that grants them immortality.

Immortal' stars may exist in the heart of the Milky Way : Read more

 

[rod]

The ref paper abstract states, "Abstract We show that stars in the inner parsec of the Milky Way can be significantly affected by dark matter annihilation, producing population-level effects that are visible in a Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram. We establish the dark HR diagram, where stars lie on a new stable dark main sequence with similar luminosities, but lower temperatures, than the standard main sequence. The dark matter density in these stars continuously replenishes, granting these stars immortality and solving multiple stellar anomalies. Upcoming telescopes could detect the dark main sequence, offering a new dark matter discovery avenue."

*dark HR diagram*, something different than the standard HR diagram to explain the stars seen in the report. "The dark matter density in these stars continuously replenishes, granting these stars immortality and solving multiple stellar anomalies."

In the old days (I am old, 70 years) I understood p-p chain, CNO, and triple alpha process fusion for interpreting HR diagram plots, now I must rethink much and look at DM to the rescue explaining results that indicate potential problems with some stars observed now This stellar evolution paradigm should be interesting to follow as it develops.

 

[mokeshame]

This is the case but not entirely. The black holes in the center of our Galaxy have one purpose that is adding one dimension to the two that already exists. With this fenomenon an group of particles, let say our Milky Way can fuel itself for ever. But this doesnt say that the black whole will forever exist. It wil evolve eventually to a higher system state. Nature can entaganle itself and thus forms particle systems.

The reason behind this is that the universe has one goal. That is to accelarate itself in the void. But in order to accalerate it cannot miss steps that caused its accelartion. This means from a philosofical view that our universe(reality) is never finished but well conserved at the same time. Thus accepting that the world around is more perfect we can possibly image.

 

[Unclear Engineer]

The many stories about "dark matter" seem highly speculative and somewhat inconsistent.

For instance, let's assume that dark matter is its own antiparticle and can release energy by annihilating itself. Then, it must result in the release of energy that somehow affects regular matter. Otherwise, the regular matter would continue to behave as predicted by the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram, and we would have not idea that there were "immortal dark stars" except perhaps by their gravitational effects that we could observe. I guess those would look like black holes to us if they don't emit normal photons, but do suck them in. But, if they do emit normal photons, then why aren't we detecting some annihilations somewhere? We certainly are looking for them.

And, this hypothesis also seems to indicate that this "dark matter" can scatter off regular matter. Again. we should be able to detect that, because conservation of momentum tells us that the regular matter would appear to move in a way that has no observable cause.

 

[bwana4swahili]

A pretty far out research paper considering no one really knows if dark matter exists let alone whether it has any impact on star 'youth'!?