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 ...

Scientists have been modeling how supermassive black holes form when two smaller black holes merge. But in their simulations, most pairs of massive black holes get stuck orbiting each other ...

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 ...

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 giant holes in galaxies’ centers shouldn’t be able to merge, yet merge they do. Scientists suggest that an unusual form of dark matter may be the solution. Galaxies have been merging into ...

Although supermassive black holes (SMBH) are the most exotic, gargantuan, galaxy-shaping objects in the universe, we still know little about them. Considering the physics-breaking nature of their ...