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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Galaxies have been merging into ever-bigger structures over the course of cosmic history. When galaxies merge, the supermassive black ...