ERC Advanced Grant · 2024
Dark Matter Phenomenology in Strong Gravity
A new era has come in the quest for dark matter, due to the absence of evidence for the most popular candidates, despite the enormous effort that has gone into searching for them. Here, I argue that the advent of precision gravitational wave astronomy offers a new extraordinary opportunity to discover DM in the strong gravity regime, and to uncover its particle properties. In a series of recent breakthrough studies, my team has shown that upcoming gravitational interferometers will be sensitive to the characteristic features in the gravitational waveforms induced by matter, and in particular dark matter, in the extreme environment around black holes, as long as our models are accurate…
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