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Tian-chi Ma

1 articles · 3 co-authors · latest: 2026-05-10

Stellar Mimicry: Boson Stars Pretend to Be Black Holes

The heart of the Milky Way, the object Sagittarius A*, might turn out not to be a black hole, but its perfect cosmic counterfeit — a boson star. Data from the infrared interferometer GRAVITY were compared with models of twelve such stars — giant scalar clumps — and the Bayesian verdict could not tel
arXiv:2605.09521v1 · 2026-05-10