{"id":193487,"date":"2024-07-24T20:23:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T01:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/solution-to-astrophysics-problem-connects-dark-matter-and-supermassive-black-holes"},"modified":"2024-07-24T20:23:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T01:23:41","slug":"solution-to-astrophysics-problem-connects-dark-matter-and-supermassive-black-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/solution-to-astrophysics-problem-connects-dark-matter-and-supermassive-black-holes","title":{"rendered":"Solution to astrophysics problem connects dark matter and supermassive black holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solution-to-astrophysics-problem-connects-dark-matter-and-supermassive-black-holes3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research may have found a link between <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmosmagazine.com\/space\/astronomy\/black-hole-spin-measured\/\">supermassive black holes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmosmagazine.com\/science\/why-dark-matter-matters\/\">dark matter<\/a> particles which might solve an issue which has irked astrophysicists for decades: the \u201cfinal parsec problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, an international team of researchers discovered a background \u201chum\u201d of gravitational waves. They hypothesised that this background signal is emanating from millions of merging pairs of supermassive black hole.<\/p>\n<p>Supermassive black holes are hundreds of thousands to billions of times larger than our Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research may have found a link between supermassive black holes and dark matter particles which might solve an issue which has irked astrophysicists for decades: the \u201cfinal parsec problem.\u201d Last year, an international team of researchers discovered a background \u201chum\u201d of gravitational waves. They hypothesised that this background signal is emanating from millions of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193487","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\/193487","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}