User:Drbogdan/sandbox-GenericObjectsOfDarkEnergy

Not to be confused with dark fluid, dark flow, or dark matter.

Generic Objects of Dark Energy (also known as GEODE and GEODEs) has been hypothesized as the result of the collapse of very large stars by Leningrad physicist Erast Gliner at the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in 1966. Such GEODEs appear to be black holes when viewed from afar but, different from black holes, these objects contain dark energy instead of a gravitational singularity. According to researchers, if a small number of the oldest stars collapsed into GEODEs, rather than black holes, their contribution, on average, would result in the uniform Dark Energy that is observed today. In addition, researchers noted that the gravitational waves observed by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration in 2016 may be better understood as occuring between double GEODE collisions, instead of double black hole collisions, since the resulting GEODE masses would be up to 8 times larger with double GEODEs, approximately in agreement with the actual observed values. A possible GEODE may be the supermassive compact object at the center of the M87 galaxy, named Powehi.

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Image of a possible GEODE object: the supermassive compact object at the center of the M87 galaxy, named Powehi.

See also

• First observation of gravitational waves
• Gravitational wave
• List of gravitational wave observations