Astrophysicists are asserting to have affirmed there are around 10,000 dark gaps at the focal point of the universe.
A group from Columbia University in New York trust they have demonstrated a decades-old hypothesis that a large number of littler dark gaps encompass the "supermassive" dark gap at the center of the Milky Way.
Known as Sagittarius A (Sgr A), the supermassive dark gap at the core of our cosmic system is encompassed by a corona of gas and tidy - accepted to be the ideal rearing ground for enormous stars that crumple into dark gaps when they bite the dust.
Both these dark gaps and others from outside the radiance are pulled towards Sgr An and held hostage around it, researchers accept.
The Columbia University group hunt down X-beams from dark gaps that have caught a passing star in their gravitational hold, known as a "dark opening parallel".
Utilizing documented information from the Chandra X-beam space telescope, they discovered confirmation of 300 to 500 of these pairs, from which they could deduce the 10,000 figure.
The college's Dr Chuck Hailey stated: "This finding affirms a noteworthy hypothesis and the suggestions are many.
"It is going to essentially progress gravitational wave examine on the grounds that knowing the quantity of dark gaps in the focal point of a run of the mill cosmic system can help in better foreseeing what number of gravitational wave occasions might be related with them.
"All the data astrophysicists require is at the focal point of the system."
Dr Hailey clarified his group picked their exploration technique since finding confined dark gaps is colossally troublesome.
"Confined, unmated dark openings are simply dark - they don't do anything," he said. "So searching for segregated dark gaps isn't a brilliant method to discover them."
The discoveries are accounted for in the most recent issue of Nature diary.