Black Holes as Dark Matter Annihilation Boosters
Astrophysics
2009-06-23 v1
Abstract
We review the consequences of the growth and evolution of Black Holes on the distribution of stars and Dark Matter (DM) around them. We focus in particular on Supermassive and Intermediate Mass Black Holes, and discuss under what circumstances they can lead to significant overdensities in the surrounding distribution of DM, thus effectively acting as DM annihilation boosters.
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@article{arxiv.0711.3148,
title = {Black Holes as Dark Matter Annihilation Boosters},
author = {Mattia Fornasa and Gianfranco Bertone},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.3148},
year = {2009}
}
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22 pages, 11 figures