Recent content by Charles Fichter

Excellent. Thank you all. This really helps. I have a lot to learn, exactly why I came here.

This is exactly why I looked up this forum, joined and posted. In addition to the two questions I've posted here, I had a lengthy exploration of why/how I was asking the questions, but it was removed by moderators - that's fine, I wanted to just see responses to the base questions anyway. I'm...

Thank you - this helps a lot and does answer the first question. I'm still very interested to find an answer to the 2nd question, I suppose more of a general astronomy question. Arman, correct. My question is if there is a broad relativistic effect extending throughout the galaxy caused by the...

Thanks - but that article doesn't answer either of my questions. The article doesn't explain how she is doing the calculations, merely hints that she is looking at movements of clusters. I'll try to dig the actual publication out, but I think at the surface it ins't what I'm really after. I'm...

Thank you very much. Only about 2 years into AP, consider myself lucky to have really experienced mentors helping me. Cheers

Hello - Just an older fellow, avid amateur astronomer, cosmology pontificator and astro-photographer: https://www.astrobin.com/users/AstroChas/ Looking forward to meeting and learning from folks here.

Question 1: Do the calculations/models for galactic structure, the basis for the missing 6x mass problem that created the notion of "Dark Matter," include any factor/variable or set of variables that account for space-time dilation due to relativistic effects caused by the super-massive black...