The total amount of mass that is observed in our Universe is much smaller than the total quantity of mass required to account for the total gravitational pull that is present. Therefore the existence of a mysterious unobservable kind of matter is postulated("Black matter"), Could it be that this "Black matter" is no more or less than all the matter that has been accumilated in the gravity traps called "Black holes"? Such matter is (almost) unobservable , but does still exert its gravitational pull. Of course this means that the quantity of matter present in Black holes must be vastly larger than assumed until now. But why not? Black holes being alone in empty space, with no more matter around them to suck in, would be practically unobservable. One can imagine that such "lone" Black holes could originate from the collapse into one point of complete Galaxies or even clusters of Galaxies.
Or alternatively:
Very large numbers of "small" Black holes that also are almost unobservable?
2006-09-01
11:45:03
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