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Astrophysicists May Have Solved ‘Final Parsec Problem’ of Supermassive Black Hole Mergers


New calculations reveal that pairs of supermassive black holes can merge into a larger black hole because of previously overlooked behavior of dark matter particles, proposing a solution to the long-standing ‘final parsec problem.’

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