Scientists Michael Schneider, Will Dawson, Nathan Golovic, and George Chaplin are looking for black holes from the laboratory of a remote-viewing telescope
Astrophysicists know that black holes are hidden in the Milky Way. But it's like a game of hide and seek, because they have yet to be found. If they show up toward the galactic bulge (a tightly packed star group) and the Magellan Clouds, then black holes can be considered as massive as 10,000 solar masses, and they can accommodate dark matter. If only in the direction of the galactic bulge, then these are just a few dead stars.
To observe the Magellanic Clouds, you need to go to the southern hemisphere. Recently, however, LLNL scientists have received a new tool, located closer to their location and able to help in the search. As part of the project, they got a telescope with remote observation.
The team uses the observation room to conduct a gravitational micro-spinning survey of the Milky Way and the Magellan Clouds in search of intermediate-mass black holes (10–10,000 times the size of the sun), capable of making up most of the dark matter. The room allows you to control the 4-meter telescope Blanco (Chile). The visible Universe is represented by about 70% dark energy, 25% dark matter, and 5% ordinary matter. However, dark matter remained a mystery, since it was first postulated in 1933. A survey conducted in the 1990s sought to verify whether dark matter consists of baryon massive compact halo objects (MACHO). The analysis showed that MACHO with a size of less than 10 solar masses is not capable of making up more than 40% of the total mass of dark matter.
Recent discoveries of the fusion of two black holes have resumed interest in the dark matter of MACHO, represented by primary black holes (formed in the early Universe in front of stars) with about 10-10000 solar masses. This idea was first proposed in 1975 by George Chaplin. The most direct way to study this mass range is to search for a gravitational microlensing signal in an existing archived astronomical visualization and provide the next generation microleasing survey using modern optical images.
Microlensing is an astronomical effect predicted by the general theory of relativity. Albert Einstein believed that when light coming from a star passes extremely close to another massive object (for example, a black hole) on its way to the earth observer, the gravity of the intermediate massive object will bend and focus the light rays of the source. This will cause the background star to appear brighter than the usual glow. Nowadays, the development of new methods of microlensing detection is underway, which allows finding the signature effect in the parallax state associated with black holes in this mass range. As a result, it will be possible to determine the proportion of dark matter, represented by black holes of intermediate mass, and measure the mass spectrum in the Milky Way.
