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Jul 24, 2024

Solution to astrophysics problem connects dark matter and supermassive black holes

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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 “final parsec problem.”

Last year, an international team of researchers discovered a background “hum” of gravitational waves. They hypothesised that this background signal is emanating from millions of merging pairs of supermassive black hole.

Supermassive black holes are hundreds of thousands to billions of times larger than our Sun.

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