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Physicists have developed a model predicting how gravitational-wave emission changes when a binary black hole system moves through dark matter.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Queen Mary University of London, University of Oxford, Université Catholique de Louvain, University of Amsterdam
Who
Josu Aurrekoetxea, Katy Clough, Pedro Ferreira, Soumen Roy, Rodrigo Vicente, LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA collaboration
What
Physicists have developed a model predicting how gravitational-wave emission changes when a binary black hole system moves through dark matter.
When
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:47:28 GMT · 2h 19m ago
Where
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Queen Mary University of London, University of Oxford, Université Catholique de Louvain, University of Amsterdam ·
Why
This research provides a novel method to probe and characterize dark matter through signatures encoded in gravitational-wave signals.
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If confirmed, this method could lead to groundbreaking insights into the nature of dark matter, which constitutes over 80% of all matter in the universe, by analyzing gravitational wave data from black hole collisions.
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