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.

🟣 Guest: Dr. Gonzalo Alonso Álvarez

📜 Self-Interacting Dark Matter Solves the Final Parsec Problem of Supermassive Black Hole Mergers
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

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00:00 Intro
02:33 Final parsec problem
10:46 Proposed solution
21:55 Dark matter
26:46 What if it's wrong
37:10 Current obsessions
39:09 Final thoughts

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