http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/22 ... /#comments
For all you dark matter and dark energy fans out there, now there’s another new “dark” to add to the list. It’s called “dark gulping,” and it involves a process which may explain how supermassive black holes were able to form in the early universe. Astronomers from the University College of London (UCL) propose that dark gulping occurred when there were gravitational interactions between the invisible halo of dark matter in a cluster of galaxies and the gas embedded in the dark matter halo. This occurred when the Universe was less than a billion years old. They found that the interactions cause the dark matter to form a compact central mass, which can be gravitationally unstable, and collapse. The fast dynamical collapse is the dark gulping.
Seven to ten degrees of freedom? Is that their way of saying seven to ten "dimensions"?“In the context of our model, the observed core sizes of galaxy cluster halos and the observed range of giant black hole masses imply that dark matter particles have between seven and ten degrees of freedom,” said Saxton. ”With more than six, the inner region of the dark matter approaches the threshold of gravitational instability, opening up the possibility of dark gulping taking place.
Here's a link to the actual paper. Mostly just convoluted abstract mathematical acrobatics. But it passes peer review.
http://arxiv.org/pdf/0809.3795v1
This quote from Tesla says it all:
It was in an April issue! 