{"id":195383,"date":"2024-08-29T06:24:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T11:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/dark-matter-was-the-key-astrophysicists-solve-longstanding-final-parsec-problem"},"modified":"2024-08-29T06:24:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T11:24:30","slug":"dark-matter-was-the-key-astrophysicists-solve-longstanding-final-parsec-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/dark-matter-was-the-key-astrophysicists-solve-longstanding-final-parsec-problem","title":{"rendered":"Dark Matter Was the Key: Astrophysicists Solve Longstanding \u201cFinal Parsec Problem\u201d"},"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\/4VJSUaN0Luc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Researchers have linked supermassive black hole mergers with dark matter interactions, potentially solving a longstanding astronomical problem and offering new insights into dark matter\u2019s nature and its role in the cosmos.<\/strong><\/p>\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<p>Their new calculations reveal that pairs of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can merge into a single larger black hole because of previously overlooked behavior of dark matter particles, proposing a solution to the longstanding \u201cfinal parsec problem\u201d in astronomy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have linked supermassive black hole mergers with dark matter interactions, potentially solving a longstanding astronomical problem and offering new insights into dark matter\u2019s nature and its role in the cosmos. Researchers have found a link between some of the largest and smallest objects in the cosmos: supermassive black holes and dark matter particles. Their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195383","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\/195383","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}