[Interview] Can Dark Matter Solve One Of The Biggest Mysteries of Black Holes?
The final parsec problem is a mystery that is yet to be answered by cosmology. On paper, supermassive black holes shouldn't merge. But yet they do. Why is it happening? What helps them slow down? Could it be dark matter? Looking for answers in this interview.
\n\n\U0001f7e3 Guest: Dr. Gonzalo Alonso \xc1lvarez
\n\n\U0001f4dc Self-Interacting Dark Matter Solves the Final Parsec Problem of Supermassive Black Hole Mergers
\nhttps://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.021401
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- 00:00 Intro \n
- 02:33 Final parsec problem \n
- 10:46 Proposed solution \n
- 21:55 Dark matter \n
- 26:46 What if it's wrong \n
- 37:10 Current obsessions \n
- 39:09 Final thoughts \n
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