{"id":205922,"date":"2025-02-08T13:11:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T19:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/dark-matter-dominating-halos-of-supermassive-black-holes-13-billion-light-years-away"},"modified":"2025-02-08T13:11:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T19:11:39","slug":"dark-matter-dominating-halos-of-supermassive-black-holes-13-billion-light-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/dark-matter-dominating-halos-of-supermassive-black-holes-13-billion-light-years-away","title":{"rendered":"Dark matter dominating halos of supermassive black holes 13 billion light-years away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dark-matter-dominating-halos-of-supermassive-black-holes-13-billion-light-years-away.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/university\/kavli-ipmu\/\">Kavli IPMU<\/a> Professor John Silverman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipmu.jp\/en\/20250207-darkmatter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">said<\/a>, <em>\u201cVera Rubin provided the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/indirect-evidence-found-existence-dark-matter-surrounding-black-holes\/57940\/\">evidence for dark matter<\/a> using the rotation curves of nearby local galaxies. We\u2019re using the same technique but now in the early Universe.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Blue-shifted (towards researchers) and redshifted (away) gas show velocity changes in the galaxy. Unlike past studies, which showed less dark matter in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/fast-radio-burst-found-outskirts-ancient-galaxy\/96350\/\">galaxy\u2019s outskirts<\/a>, their data shows a flat rotation curve, indicating that more dark matter is needed for high velocities.<\/p>\n<p>These findings shed light on the relationship between dark matter and supermassive black holes, helping us understand galaxy evolution from the early Universe to today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kavli IPMU Professor John Silverman said, \u201cVera Rubin provided the first evidence for dark matter using the rotation curves of nearby local galaxies. We\u2019re using the same technique but now in the early Universe.\u201d Blue-shifted (towards researchers) and redshifted (away) gas show velocity changes in the galaxy. Unlike past studies, which showed less dark matter [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}