Ultralight dark matter could potentially speed up supermassive black hole mergers.

Gravitational waves can provide unparalleled insight into the evolving universe. We are interested in possible gravitational wave signals from inflation itself, nonlinear dynamics following inflation and the interactions of supermassive black holes in the present universe.
Separately, some early universe scenarios predict the formation of primordial black holes and constraints on this population usefully test cosmological scenarios that predict them.
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Ultralight dark matter could potentially speed up supermassive black hole mergers.
Simulating the dynamical friction experienced by a black hole making a radial plunge through a soliton.
A hypothetical “cosmological coupling” of black holes is falsified by gravitational wave observations.