Dark Matter May Be Trapped in All the Black Holes
by Pedro Ferreira
Aug 08, 2017
5 minutes
When, on February the 11th, 2016, the spokesperson for the Advanced Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Observer, or aLIGO, for short, announced the discovery of gravitational waves, I was stunned. For sure, we expected aLIGO to, at some point, give us something interesting, but we thought it would be tentative. We expected that the project would, after a sophisticated and laborious look at months or years of data, show us a weak signal, popping its head feebly above the noise.
But no, the plots that were shown that fateful day in February were so clear and unambiguous that I didn’t take any convincing. I could
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