Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are the churning engines of galaxies, but astrophysicists aren’t exactly sure how two of them merge. While evidence suggests this occurs, we’ve never seen a merger ...

Researchers have found a link between some of the largest and smallest objects in the cosmos: supermassive black holes and dark matter particles. Their new calculations reveal that pairs of ...

A new study helps solve the "final parsec problem" that has made supermassive black hole formation impossible to explain, pointing to a strange form of dark matter as the key. When you purchase ...

In a new study, scientists from Canada have proposed a solution to the final parsec problem of supermassive black hole (SMBH) mergers using self-interacting dark matter. When two galaxies merge, gas ...