The main intrigue: does gravity obey quantum laws? If so, mutual attraction of particles weaves them into quantum entanglement — like a dance where the partners' movements are inseparable. But self-interaction is just staring at your own reflection, giving birth to no connection. Physicists ran numerical simulations of two bodies on a line, like tightrope walkers on a thread. It turned out that fuzzy blobs entangle strongly (entropy measure 0.87), dense clumps weakly (0.19). But if one particle is more massive, like a heavy dancer, it smashes its partner into fragments, sharply boosting the bond to 1.67 — an almost perfect duet. No collapse of their superpositions is needed. Conclusion: gravity is quantized. This changes the worldview and pushes for experiments with levitating beads that will 'feel' the quantum measurement of gravity. And quantum information will unlock new technologies. By the way, the Schrödinger–Newton equation, invented to counter the 'blurring' of reality, now works in dark matter models.
The Schrödinger–Newton equation was once invented to explain why large objects don't smear into a quantum haze. Today it is unexpectedly used to calculate dark matter and boson stars.