{"id":193355,"date":"2024-07-23T14:22:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T19:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/astrophysicists-uncover-supermassive-black-hole-dark-matter-connection-in-solving-the-final-parsec-problem"},"modified":"2024-07-23T14:22:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T19:22:31","slug":"astrophysicists-uncover-supermassive-black-hole-dark-matter-connection-in-solving-the-final-parsec-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/astrophysicists-uncover-supermassive-black-hole-dark-matter-connection-in-solving-the-final-parsec-problem","title":{"rendered":"Astrophysicists uncover supermassive black hole\/dark matter connection in solving the \u2018final parsec problem\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astrophysicists-uncover-supermassive-black-hole-dark-matter-connection-in-solving-the-final-parsec-problem3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dark matter could bring black holes together.<\/p>\n<p>Dark matter that interacts with itself could extract significant momentum from a binary supermassive black hole system, causing the black holes to merge.<\/p>\n<p>A gravitational-wave \u201chum\u201d pervades the Universe.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers have found a link between some of the largest and smallest objects in the cosmos: supermassive black holes and dark matter particles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201chum\u201d pervades the Universe. Researchers have found a link between some of the largest and smallest objects in the cosmos: supermassive black holes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}