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Dark matter halos can develop a density spike, e.g., around a galactic supermassive black hole, with the profile $\rho \propto r^{-\gamma_{\rm sp}}$ determined both by the galaxy's formation history and the microphysics of dark matter. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-07 Avinash Tiwari , Prolay Chanda , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Susmita Adhikari , Aditya Vijaykumar , Basudeb Dasgupta

The accumulation of dark matter particles near the primordial black holes starts at the radiation-dominated cosmological stage and produces the central density spikes. The spikes can be the bright gamma-ray sources due to dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-02 Yu. N. Eroshenko

Annihilation radiation from supersymmetric particles at the Galactic center could be greatly enhanced if the dark matter density is peaked around the supermassive black hole. Arguments for and against the existence of density spikes are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 David Merritt

The formation and growth of black holes can strongly influence the distribution of dark matter around them. I discuss here the different types of dark matter overdensities around black holes, including dark matter cusps, spikes, mounds,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-18 Gianfranco Bertone

It has been suggested for a long time that dark matter would form a density spike around a black hole. However, no promising evidence has been observed so far to verify this theoretical suggestion. Here, we report the existence of a dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-08 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

Dark matter overdensities around black holes can be searched for by looking at the characteristic imprint they leave on the gravitational waveform of binary black hole mergers. Current theoretical predictions of the density profile of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-01 Gianfranco Bertone , A. Renske A. C. Wierda , Daniele Gaggero , Bradley J. Kavanagh , Marta Volonteri , Naoki Yoshida

Dark matter density spikes forming around adiabatically growing black holes can dramatically enhance indirect and direct detection signals. Canonical predictions, however, assume a zero-mass seed in a purely dark matter environment and do…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 Gonzalo Herrera , Abdelaziz Hussein , Lina Necib , Elliot Y. Davies , Xuejian Shen

We show that density spikes begin to form from dark matter particles around primordial black holes immediately after their formation at the radiation-dominated cosmological stage. This follows from the fact that in the thermal velocity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-10 Yu. N. Eroshenko

The cold dark matter at the center of a galaxy will be redistributed by the presence of a massive black hole. The redistribution may be determined using an approach pioneered by Gondolo and Silk: begin with a model distribution function for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-05 Laleh Sadeghian , Francesc Ferrer , Clifford M. Will

We study eccentric equatorial orbits of a stellar-mass black hole around an intermediate-mass slowly rotating Kerr black hole in the presence of gravitational radiation and a dark matter halo. The stellar-mass companion will inspiral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-13 Darkhan Shadykul , Hrishikesh Chakrabarty , Daniele Malafarina

In this work, we explore the effects of surrounding dark matter featuring different equations of state on the axial gravitational quasinormal modes of supermassive black holes situated at the center of galaxies. Our attention primarily…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-23 Yuqian Zhao , Bing Sun , Zhoujian Cao , Kai Lin , Wei-Liang Qian

Dark matter annihilation is proportional to the square of the density and is especially efficient in places of highest concentration of dark matter, such as dark matter spikes. The spikes are formed as a result of contraction of the dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-27 Alexander Belikov , Joseph Silk

Supermassive black holes at the center of each galaxy may be surrounded by dark matter. Such dark matter admits a spike structure and vanishes at a certain distance from the black hole. This dark matter will impact the spacetime near the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-02 Yuqian Zhao , Bing Sun , Kai Lin , Zhoujian Cao

The influence of dark matter (DM) on the growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galaxies is studied. It is shown that gravitational scattering of DM particles on bulge stars leads to diffusion of DM in phase space {m, m_z, I} ('m'…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. I. Zelnikov , E. A. Vasiliev

In this paper we consider dark matter particle annihilation in the gravitational field of black holes. We obtain exact distribution function of the infalling dark matter particles, and compute the resulting flux and spectra of gamma rays…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-08 A. N. Baushev

Annihilations of weakly interacting dark matter particles provide an important signature for the possibility of indirect detection of dark matter in galaxy halos. These self-annihilations can be greatly enhanced in the vicinity of a massive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. Bertone , G. Sigl , J. Silk

We study the effects of black hole dark matter on the dynamical evolution of stars in dwarf galaxies. We find that mass segregation leads to a depletion of stars in the center of dwarf galaxies and the appearance of a ring in the projected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-08 Savvas M. Koushiappas , Abraham Loeb

At the cosmological stage of radiation dominance, dark matter density spikes should form around primordial black holes. In the case when dark matter particles are able to annihilate, the density in the central regions of the spikes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-30 Yury N. Eroshenko

The past growth of the central black hole (BH) might have enhanced the density of cold dark matter halo particles at the Galactic center. We compute this effect in realistic growth models of the present (2-3)*10**6 solar mass BH from a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Piero Ullio , HongSheng Zhao , Marc Kamionkowski

Annihilation radiation from neutralino dark matter at the Galactic center (GC) would be greatly enhanced if the dark matter were strongly clustered around the supermassive black hole (SBH). The existence of a dark-matter "spike" is made…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David Merritt
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