Ultralight dark matter could potentially speed up supermassive black hole mergers.
Dark matter and dark energy
Gravitational waves provide unique opportunities to explore cosmology. Easther and his group have worked to understand possible gravitational wave signals generated during the inflationary phase, in the nonlinear phase following inflation, and from the dynamics of supermassive black holes in the present universe.
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Black Hole Plunges in Solitons
Simulating the dynamical friction experienced by a black hole making a radial plunge through a soliton.
Multifield Ultralight Dark Matter
"Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error...
Stellar Accelerations in MONDian Galaxies
We calculate the differences in stellar accelerations between MONDian spirals and their dark matter analogues.
Realistic Ultralight Dark Matter Halos
Realistic aspherical initial conditions for ultralight dark matter solitons.