Whirlpools Around Black Holes: A Key to Dark Matter ⚡ экспресс
Scientists found that near rotating black holes, quantum vortices can form—like whirlwinds, but in the 'fluid' of spacetime. These vortices alter the properties of dark matter and offer a glimpse into gravity’s deepest secrets. How do these cosmic whirlpools unveil the rotation of the black hole itself?
A spinning black hole acts like a giant funnel, but instead of just sucking in everything around it, it twists space itself, like a swift river current. New calculations show that in this maelstrom, stable vortices can be born from ultralight particles — likely building blocks of dark matter. Unlike ordinary objects, these whirlpools don’t immediately plummet into the abyss but circle around for a long time, their motion betraying just how much the black hole warps spacetime around it — an effect predicted by Einstein’s theory.
Thus, we gain a new tool to study black holes and dark matter. The most surprising aspect is the scale: a whirlpool can exceed the size of the Solar System while remaining invisible, because its particles are lighter than a feather. These giant ghostly structures live for millions of years and may already appear to us as brief flares near black holes.
🎯 These whirlpools are billions of times finer than an atom, yet span millions of kilometers, dwarfing the black hole itself.