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the difficulty of shrinking a supermassive black hole binary from about a parsec to the separation where gravitational waves take over, once nearby stars are used up.

In astrophysics, final parsec problem refers to the difficulty of shrinking a supermassive black hole binary from about a parsec to the separation where gravitational waves take over, once nearby stars are used up. This meaning comes from Milosavljević (2003) in AIP Conference Proceedings.[1]

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Milosavljević, M. (2003). The Final Parsec Problem. AIP Conference Proceedings, 686. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1629432

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