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We have sifted through astrophysical data collected by various radial velocity and gravitational microlensing searches for exoplanets with the goal of identifying potential signs of the presence of primordial black holes (PBH). Our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-04 Paul Halpern , Erik Cauley , Max Stoltzmann , Mauritz Wilshusen

We report the discovery of three low-mass black hole candidates residing in the centers of low-mass galaxies at z<0.3 in the Chandra Deep Field - South Survey. These black holes are initially identified as candidate active galactic nuclei…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Schramm , J. D. Silverman , J. E. Greene , W. N. Brandt , B. Luo , Y. Q. Xue , P. Capak , Y. Kakazu , J. Kartaltepe , V. Mainieri

Direct collapse black hole (DCBH) formation with mass $\gtrsim 10^{5}~M_{\odot}$ is a promising scenario for the origin of high-redshift supermassive black holes. It has usually been supposed that the DCBH can only form in the primordial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-15 Sunmyon Chon , Kazuyuki Omukai

There is strong evidence for the existence of black holes(BHs) in some X-ray binaries and most galatic nuclei, based on different measuremental approaches, but black holes aren't finally identified for the lack of very firm observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 W. Wang , Y. Zhao

While no gravitational-wave detection of subsolar mass black holes has been confirmed to date, a number of candidate detections invite us to speculate on the origin of such black holes should a detection be confirmed. It is generally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-27 Thomas W. Baumgarte , Stuart L. Shapiro

The physical trigger powering supernovae following the core collapse of massive stars is believed to involve a neutron star (NS) or a black hole (BH), depending largely on progenitor mass. A potentially distinct signature is a long-duration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-28 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten , Maryam A. Abchouyeh , Massimo Della Valle

Black holes with masses of $\rm 10^6-10^9~M_{\odot}$ dwell in the centers of most galaxies, but their formation mechanisms are not well known. A subdominant dissipative component of dark matter with similar properties to the ordinary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 M. A. Latif , A. Lupi , D. R. G. Schleicher , G. D'Amico , P. Panci , S. Bovino

We discuss various mechanisms of catalysis of black holes/wormholes (BH/WH) formation in particles collisions. The current paradigm suggests that BH/WH formation in particles collisions will happen when center of mass energies of colliding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-02 I. Ya. Aref'eva

The origin of high velocity stars observed in the halo of our Galaxy is still unclear. In this work we test the hypothesis, raised by results of recent high precision $N$-body simulations, of strong acceleration of stars belonging to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-03 Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta , Giacomo Fragione

Cold dark matter (CDM) could be composed of primordial black holes (PBH) in addition to or instead of more orthodox weakly interacting massive particle dark matter (PDM). We study the formation of the first structures in such $\Lambda$PBH…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Derek Inman , Yacine Ali-Haïmoud

If primordial black holes (PBHs) formed at the quark-hadron epoch, their mass must be close to the Chandrasekhar limit, this also being the characteristic mass of stars. If they provide the dark matter (DM), the collapse fraction must be of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Bernard Carr , Sebastien Clesse , Juan García-Bellido

A group of massive galaxies at redshifts of $z\gtrsim 7$ have been recently detected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which were unexpected to form so early within the framework of standard Big Bang cosmology. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-13 Guan-Wen Yuan , Lei Lei , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Bo Wang , Yi-Ying Wang , Chao Chen , Zhao-Qiang Shen , Yi-Fu Cai , Yi-Zhong Fan

The presence of nine candidate galaxies at $z=17$ and $z=25$ discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in relatively small sky areas, if confirmed, is virtually impossible to reconcile with the predictions of the current galaxy formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-17 Antonio Matteri , Andrea Ferrara , Andrea Pallottini

In this first paper of a series on the formation and abundance of substellar mass dwarf black holes (DBHs), we present a heuristic for deducing the stability of non-rotating matter embedded in a medium against collapse and the formation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-04-14 Andrew P. Hayes , Neil F. Comins

Most of the galaxies harbor supermassive Black Holes (SMBH) in their center. Some of them are observed in very high redshifts. We explore the possibility that SMBH form from the coherent waves of Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) which are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-08 M. Morikawa , S. Takahashi

We test the possibility that the black holes (BHs) detected by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) may be cosmologically coupled and grow in mass proportionally to the cosmological scale factor to some power $k$, which may also act as the dark energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-01 Luca Amendola , Davi C. Rodrigues , Sumit Kumar , Miguel Quartin

If a black hole formed in a core-collapse supernova is accreting material from the base of the envelope, the accretion luminosity could be observable in the supernova light curve. We present results of a fully relativistic numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Shmuel Balberg , Stuart L. Shapiro , Luca Zampieri

We compute the number density of massive Black Holes (BHs) at the centre of galaxies at z=6 in different Dynamical Dark Energy (DDE) cosmologies, and compare it with existing observational lower limits, to derive constraints on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Alessandra Lamastra , Nicola Menci , Fabrizio Fiore , Cinzia Di Porto , Luca Amendola

Using cosmological radiation-hydrodynamical simulations, we study the effect of accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) on nearby dark-matter (DM) haloes in the very early universe. We find that an SMBH with a spectral energy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-15 Ethan M. Fisk , Madeline A. Marshall , Phoebe R. Upton Sanderbeck , Jarrett L. Johnson

JWST has revealed an abundance of supermassive black holes (BHs) in the early Universe, and yet the lowest mass seed black holes that gave rise to these populations remain elusive. Here we present a systematic search for broad-line Active…