{"id":193871,"date":"2024-08-01T12:30:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T17:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/dark-matter-solves-longstanding-black-hole-problem-astrophysicists-say"},"modified":"2024-08-01T12:30:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T17:30:12","slug":"dark-matter-solves-longstanding-black-hole-problem-astrophysicists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/dark-matter-solves-longstanding-black-hole-problem-astrophysicists-say","title":{"rendered":"Dark Matter Solves Longstanding Black Hole Problem, Astrophysicists Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wOnZuG36ZLw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0f Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months extra here plus up to 20 GB Saily data voucher \u27bc <a href=\"https:\/\/NordVPN.com\/sabine\">https:\/\/NordVPN.com\/sabine<\/a> It\u2019s risk-free with Nord\u2019s 30-day money-back guarantee! \u270c<\/p>\n<p>Physicists say that they might have solved a long standing problem: How do supermassive black holes manage to merge to larger ones. Their idea: dark matter gets the job done. Or does it? I\u2019ve had a look.<\/p>\n<p>Paper: <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\">https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd13 Check out my new quiz app \u279c <a href=\"http:\/\/quizwithit.com\/\">http:\/\/quizwithit.com\/<\/a><br \/> \ud83d\udc8c Support me on Donorbox \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/swtg\">https:\/\/donorbox.org\/swtg<\/a>.<br \/> \ud83d\udcdd Transcripts and written news on Substack \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/sciencewtg.substack.com\/\">https:\/\/sciencewtg.substack.com\/<\/a><br \/> \ud83d\udc49 Transcript with links to references on Patreon \u279c \/ sabine.<br \/> \ud83d\udce9 Free weekly science newsletter \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/sabinehossenfelder.com\/newsle\">https:\/\/sabinehossenfelder.com\/newsle<\/a>\u2026<br \/> \ud83d\udc42 Audio only podcast \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0MkNfXl\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0MkNfXl<\/a>\u2026<br \/> \ud83d\udd17 Join this channel to get access to perks \u279c<br \/> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sabinehossenfelder\">@sabinehossenfelder<\/a>.<br \/> \ud83d\uddbc\ufe0f On instagram \u279c \/ sciencewtg.<\/p>\n<p>#science #sciencenews #physics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udf0f Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months extra here plus up to 20 GB Saily data voucher \u27bc https:\/\/NordVPN.com\/sabine It\u2019s risk-free with Nord\u2019s 30-day money-back guarantee! \u270c Physicists say that they might have solved a long standing problem: How do supermassive black holes manage to merge to larger ones. Their idea: dark matter gets [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,13,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-open-access","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193871","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=193871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}