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In this work, we explored the effect of the fuzzy dark matter (FDM) (or wave dark matter) halo on a supermassive black hole (SMBH). Such a dark matter introduces a soliton core density profile, and we treat it ideally as a spherical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-31 Reggie C. Pantig , Ali Övgün

Recent high-resolution imaging observations of strong lens systems reveal dense low-mass perturbers. We propose a soliton core, whose central density is boosted by a supermassive black hole (SMBH), in the fuzzy dark matter (FDM) model as an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-23 Masamune Oguri , Naoi Kubo

We investigate the impact of accretion onto supermassive black holes on the density profiles of a fuzzy dark matter soliton core at the center of a dark matter halo. Treating the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy as a point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 Chon-Fai Kam , Chi-Sheng Chen , En-Jui Kuo

Observations of massive supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the early universe challenge existing black hole formation models. We propose that soliton cores in fuzzy dark matter (FDM) offer a potential solution to this timing problem. Our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-17 H. -H. Sandy Chiu , Hsi-Yu Schive , Hsiang-Yi Karen Yang , Hsinhao Huang , Massimo Gaspari

We investigate the impact of fuzzy dark matter (FDM) on supermassive black holes (SMBHs) characterized by a spherical charge distribution. This work introduces a new class of spherically symmetric, self-gravitational relativistic charged…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-22 Z. Yousaf , Bander Almutairi , S. Khan , Kazuharu Bamba

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) consisting of ultra-light axions has been invoked to alleviate galactic-scale problems in the cold dark matter scenario. FDM fluctuations, created via the superposition of waves, can impact the motion of a central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-07 Amr El-Zant , Zacharias Roupas , Joseph Silk

The fuzzy dark matter model (FDM, also known as quantum wave dark matter model) argues that light bosons with a mass of $\sim10^{-22}{\;{\rm eV}}$ are a possible candidate for dark matter in the Universe. One of the most important…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-12 Zhi Li , Juntai Shen , Hsi-Yu Schive

Measurements of the dynamical environment of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are becoming abundant and precise. We use such measurements to look for ultralight dark matter (ULDM), which is predicted to form dense cores ("solitons") in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-16 Nitsan Bar , Kfir Blum , Thomas Lacroix , Paolo Panci

Ultralight bosonic dark matter called fuzzy dark matter (FDM) has attracted much attention as an alternative to the cold dark matter. An intriguing feature of the FDM model is the presence of a soliton core, a stable dense core formed at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Atsushi Taruya , Shohei Saga

We simulate the formation of Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) cores in the presence of a Black Hole (BH) to explore whether BHs can serve as seeds for FDM core condensation. Our analysis is based on the core-condensation via the kinetic relaxation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-31 Curicaveri Palomares-Chavez , Ivan Alvarez-Rios , Francisco S. Guzman

Dark Matter (DM) is usually studied in connection with rotational curves in the outskirts of the galaxies. However, the role of DM might be different in the galactic bulges and centers where Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) dominate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-07 Davide Batic , Joud Mojahed Faraji , Marek Nowakowski

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) is among the most suitable candidates to replace WIMPs and to resolve the puzzling mystery of dark matter. A galactic dark matter halo made of these ultralight bosonic particles leads to the formation of a solitonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-19 Gabriel d'Andrade Furlanetto , Riccardo Della Monica , Ivan De Martino

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) has recently gained attention as a motivated candidate for the dark matter (DM) content of the Universe, as opposed to the commonly assumed cold DM (CDM), since the soliton profile intrinsic to FDM models was found…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-01 Tatyana Shevchuk , Ely D. Kovetz , Adi Zitrin

Soliton cores at the center of fuzzy dark matter (FDM) halos provide a promising way to distinguish FDM from other dark matter models. However, the relation between solitons and their host halos remains contentious. Here, we rigorously…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 Pin-Yu Liao , Guan-Ming Su , Hsi-Yu Schive , Alexander Kunkel , Hsinhao Huang , Tzihong Chiueh

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is an attractive dark matter candidate composed of ultralight particles. In this paper, toward a clear understanding of the core-halo relation in the FDM halos, we consider a simple model of the soliton-halo system,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-25 Yusuke Manita , Takuya Takahashi , Atsushi Taruya

We investigate phenomenologically the viability of fuzzy dark matter (FDM). We do this by confronting the predictions of the model, in particular, the formation of a solitonic core at the center of dark matter halos, with a homogeneous and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-15 Andrés Bañares-Hernández , Andrés Castillo , Jorge Martin Camalich , Giuliano Iorio

If the dark matter is made of ultra-light axions, stable solitonic cores form at the centers of virialized halos. In some range for the mass $m$ of the axion particle, these cores are sufficiently compact and can mimic supermassive black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Vincent Desjacques , Adi Nusser

Scalar-field dark matter (SFDM) halos exhibit a core-envelope structure with soliton-like cores and CDM-like envelopes. Simulations without self-interaction (free-field case) report a core-halo mass relation $M_c\propto M_{h}^{\beta}$, with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-08 Luis E. Padilla , Tanja Rindler-Daller , Paul R. Shapiro , Tonatiuh Matos , J. Alberto Vázquez

Whereas cold dark matter (CDM) simulations predict central dark matter cusps with densities that diverge as $\rho$(r)$\sim$ 1/r observations often indicate constant density cores with finite central densities $\rho_0$ and a flat density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-09 Andreas Burkert

A semi-analytical model for the evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes (SMBHs) within the $\Lambda$CDM paradigm has been shown to yield stellar mass-BH mass relations that reproduce both the JWST and pre-JWST observations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 John Ellis , Malcolm Fairbairn , Juan Urrutia , Ville Vaskonen
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