Dense Axion Stars — mentioned by raattgift

Tue, 30 May 2023 21:18:09 GMT

First see footnote 1 of the first page of the preprint linked at the top. The authors are jumping the gun. That's fine for theorists, but bear in mind that they are literally in the dark on a number of telescopic observables, any of which would shoot down the idea in the preprint. Some of these are achievable by EHT. See e.g. Olivares et al. "How to tell an accreting boson star from a black hole" (2020) <https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10112389/1/staa1878.pd...> [pdf]. The exotic bosons available in a 3+1 spacetime have never been detected at energy levels low enough that one might…

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Dense Axion Stars — mentioned by raattgift