2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/33730In a recent work (Torres, Capozziello and Lambiase, Physical Review D62, 104012 (2000)), it was shown that a supermassive boson star could provide an alternative model for the galactic center, usually assumed as a black hole. Here we comment on some of the possibilities to actually detect this object, and how can it be distinguished from the standard and other alternative models.Short paper to be published in the Proceedings of the MG 9 Meeting. July 2000, RomeGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmologytext