Author(s)

Lewis Nash

Marietta, USA.

Analogous to a black body, the empty space surrounding a massive body is theoretically envisioned to radiate thermal gravitational energy in accordance with Planck’s radiation law. Gravitational black-body radiation offers a remarkably compelling solution to the deep, long-standing questions concerning galaxy rotation curves and strong gravitational lensing by large astrophysical systems, without the need to impose a dark matter or massive graviton hypothesis. As with the quantized orbits of the electron in the atom and the classical physics of Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetism, gravitational black-body radiation represents a truly profound break from the classical physics of Einstein’s general theory of relativity and the emergence of the fundamental quantum nature of gravity.

Black Body, Graviton, Milky Way, Rotation Curve

Nash, L. (2022) Gravitational Black-Body Radiation. Journal of High Energy Physics, Gravitation and Cosmology, 8, 527-535. doi: 10.4236/jhepgc.2022.83038.