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Black hole dynamics suggests that dark matter would re-distribute near a supermassive black hole to form a density spike. However, no direct evidence of dark matter density spike around a supermassive black hole has been identified. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-30 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

If cold dark matter is present at the galactic center, as in current models of the dark halo, it is accreted by the central black hole into a dense spike. Particle dark matter then annihilates strongly inside the spike, making it a compact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paolo Gondolo , Joseph Silk

Particle dark matter near the galactic center is accreted by the central black hole into a dense spike, strongly enhancing its annihilation rate. Searching for its annihilation products may give us information on the presence or absence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Paolo Gondolo , Joseph Silk

Dark matter density can be significantly enhanced by the supermassive black hole at the galactic center, leading to a structure called dark matter spike. Dark matter spike may change the spacetime properties of black holes that constitute…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-29 Dong Liu , Yi Yang , Zheng-Wen Long

Here we provide shadow images of a Kerr-like black hole (BH) in cold dark matter (CDM) halo illuminated with a celestial light source and a thin accretion disk. The impact of spin parameter, critical density and the scale radius on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-13 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Chen-Yu Yang , M. Israr Aslam , Rabia Saleem , Sadia Aslam

Dark matter annihilation in so-called ``spikes'' near black holes is believed to be an important method of indirect dark matter detection. In the case of circular particle orbits, the density profile of dark matter has a plateau at small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Eugene Vasiliev

Anisotropic emission of gravitational waves during the merger or formation of black holes can lead to the ejection of these black holes from their host galaxies. A recoiled black hole which moves on an almost radial bound orbit outside the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Roya Mohayaee , Jacques Colin

The evolution of the dark matter distribution at the Galactic center is analyzed, which is caused by the combination of gravitational scattering on Galactic bulge stars and absorption by a supermassive black hole at the center of the bulge.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. I. Zelnikov , E. A. Vasiliev

Dark matter overdensities around black holes can alter the dynamical evolution of a companion object orbiting around it, and cause a dephasing of the gravitational waveform. Here, we present a refined calculation of the co-evolution of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 Theophanes K. Karydas , Bradley J. Kavanagh , Gianfranco Bertone

If a lot of dark matter particles accumulate near the black hole, then the chances of detecting dark matter signals near a black hole are greatly increased. These effects may be observed by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), Tianqin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-29 Zhaoyi Xu , Jiancheng Wang

Black holes located within a dark matter cloud can create overdensity regions known as dark matter spikes. The presence of spikes modifies the gravitational-wave signals from binary systems through changes in the gravitational potential or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-06 Nicholas Speeney , Andrea Antonelli , Vishal Baibhav , Emanuele Berti

The connection between dark matter and giant black holes in the galactic nuclei is investigated. The joint evolution of dark and luminous matter in averaged self-consistent gravitational potential is considered. It is shown that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. S. Ilyin , K. P. Zybin , A. V. Gurevich

In this paper, we show that in the vicinity of certain astronomical bodies, e.g., a Neutron Star, a Black Hole, there exist significant enhancements of Dark Matter's density and current, due to its interaction with the gravitational field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-07 H. B. Tran Tan , V. V. Flambaum , J. C. Berengut

Dark matter is theorised to form massive haloes, which could be further condensed into so-called spikes when a black hole grows at the centre of such a halo. The existence of these spikes is instrumental for several dark matter detection…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-26 Jasper Leonora P. D. Kamermans , A. Renske A. C. Wierda

The existence of quintessential dark energy around a black hole has considerable consequences on its spacetime geometry. Hence, in this article, we explore its effect on horizons and the silhouette generated by a Kerr-Newman black hole in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-23 Saeed Ullah Khan , Jingli Ren

A dark matter overdensity around a black hole may significantly alter the dynamics of the black hole's merger with another compact object. We consider here intermediate mass-ratio inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-23 Bradley J. Kavanagh , David A. Nichols , Gianfranco Bertone , Daniele Gaggero

The formation and evolution of Black Holes inevitably affects the distribution of dark and baryonic matter in the neighborhood of the Black Hole. These effects may be particularly relevant around Supermassive and Intermediate Mass Black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-19 Gianfranco Bertone , Mattia Fornasa , Marco Taoso , Andrew R. Zentner

The particles of a dark matter due to gravitational interaction deviate from straight trajectories in the vicinity of a massive body. This causes their density to become inhomogeneous. The developed density contrast causes a gravitation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-29 S. L. Parnovsky

We investigate the inspiral of a high mass-ratio black hole binary located in the nucleus of a galaxy, where the primary central black hole is surrounded by a dense dark matter spike formed through accretion during the black hole growth…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-01 Fani Dosopoulou , Joseph Silk

Advances in high angular resolution astronomy make it conceivable that black hole dark matter could be detected via angular deviation effects. Assuming the dark matter in the galaxy is made of solar mass black holes, there is a non-trivial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-08 Leo Stodolsky