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Astrophysicists uncover supermassive black hole/dark matter connection in solving the ‘final parsec problem’

Posted in cosmology, particle physics

Dark matter could bring black holes together.

Dark matter that interacts with itself could extract significant momentum from a binary supermassive black hole system, causing the black holes to merge.

A gravitational-wave “hum” pervades the Universe.


Researchers have found a link between some of the largest and smallest objects in the cosmos: supermassive black holes and dark matter particles.