utac-metastable-clusters

Metastable star clusters and Sagittarius A* as UTAC entropy-return nodes — a realistic, non-exotic alternative to the white-hole hypothesis, plus a UTAC-framework application to star formation near the Galactic Center. GenesisAeon Package 56.

SPECULATIVE MODULE — see DISCLAIMER.md. Not peer-reviewed.

What is this?

White holes are unobserved and face severe thermodynamic and stability issues. This package models two real, documented astrophysical puzzles through the UTAC (Universal Threshold Adaptive Criticality) framework instead:

1. Compact star clusters as distributed entropy-return nodes — using known processes (stellar winds, supernovae, tidal ejection) rather than a hypothetical time-reversed black hole.
2. Sagittarius A* as a metastable entropy modulator — explaining active star formation within a few light-years of the Galactic Center despite extreme tidal/radiative conditions (the "paradox of youth").

Installation

pip install utac-metastable-clusters

Usage

from utac_metastable_clusters import UTACMetastableClusters

sys = UTACMetastableClusters()
result = sys.run_cycle()

print(result["cluster"])   # star-cluster entropy-node summary
print(result["sgr_a"])     # Sagittarius A* modulator summary
print(sys.get_crep_state())
print(sys.to_zenodo_record())

Falsifiable predictions

Real reference data used (independently verified 2026-08-01)

• Gaia DR3 tidal tails: 19 of 21 nearby open clusters show tidal tails (2025 A&A study), 4 of those asymmetric/tilted away from the Galactic Centre — a real finding the standard tidal-disruption picture doesn't fully predict.
• A2744-z7p9OD: a real, JWST-NIRSpec-confirmed protocluster at z≈7.88.

See DISCLAIMER.md for what this package does and does not claim — notably, it deliberately does not repeat an unsupported "13.5 MHz resonance in Sagittarius A*" claim found in a related preprint.

Role in the GenesisAeon Ecosystem

Package ID: P56 | Domain: astrophysics / entropy dynamics

Builds on the same UTAC/CREP/v_RIG/σ_Φ constants used across the ecosystem (see vrig-cosmological, beta-clustering-utac, Feldtheorie). v_RIG = c/(α⁻¹·Φ) ≈ 1352.07 km/s here uses the corrected value (see FELDTHEORIE_EPISTEMIC_MAP.md, 2026-08-01).

Development

git clone https://github.com/GenesisAeon/utac-metastable-clusters.git
cd utac-metastable-clusters
pip install -e ".[dev]"
ruff check src tests
mypy src
pytest

License

Dual-licensed: source code under GPL-3.0-or-later, documentation under CC BY 4.0.

Citation

See CITATION.cff and .zenodo.json.

GenesisAeon · MOR Research Collective · August 2026