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Signatures of Gravitational Atoms from Black Hole Mergers

SEP 16, 2024
Gravitational-wave signals from black hole mergers could reveal the presence of “gravitational atoms"—black holes surrounded by clouds of axions or other light bosons.

DOI: 10.1103/Physics.17.133

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