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We explore for the first time the effect of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) on the dark matter (DM) and baryonic distribution in massive galaxies formed in hydrodynamical cosmological simulations, including explicit baryonic physics…

Though the nature of dark matter remains elusive, two models have come to prominence with testable predictions: cold dark matter (CDM) and self-interacting dark matter (SIDM). While CDM remains the widely accepted model, SIDM was introduced…

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Dark matter (DM) spikes around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) may lead to interesting physical effects such as enhanced DM annihilation signals or dynamical friction within binary systems, shortening the merger time and possibly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 V. M. Sabarish , Marcus Brüggen , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg , Moritz S. Fischer

The existence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with masses greater than $\sim 10^{9}M_{\odot}$ at high redshift ($z\gtrsim 7$) is difficult to accommodate in standard astrophysical scenarios. We study the possibility that (nearly)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-27 Huangyu Xiao , Xuejian Shen , Philip F. Hopkins , Kathryn M. Zurek

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models offer one way to reconcile inconsistencies between observations and predictions from collisionless cold dark matter (CDM) models on dwarf-galaxy scales. In order to incorporate the effects of both…

We investigate the growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at high redshift ($z \ge 10$) from a combination of dark matter capture, black-hole mergers, and gas accretion. It has previously been shown that SMBHs can form by $z \approx 10$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-14 Andrew Imai , Grant J. Mathews , Guobao Tang , Brian Zhang

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models have been proposed to solve the small-scale issues with the collisionless cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm. We derive equilibrium solutions in these SIDM models for the dark matter halo density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-16 Manoj Kaplinghat , Ryan E. Keeley , Tim Linden , Hai-Bo Yu

We consider the consequences of SIDM for a velocity dependent cross section per unit mass. Accretion of SIDM onto seed black holes can produce supermassive black holes that are too large for certain combinations of parameters,which is used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Joseph F. Hennawi , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We present a suite of baryonic cosmological zoom-in simulations of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) haloes within the ``Feedback In Realistic Environment'' (FIRE) project. The three simulated haloes have virial masses of $\sim 10^{12}\,…

Given a large-scale mixture of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) particles and baryon matter distributed in the early Universe, we advance here a two-phase accretion scenario for forming supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with masses around…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jian Hu , Yue Shen , Yu-Qing Lou , Shuangnan Zhang

We compare a suite of four simulated dwarf galaxies formed in 10$^{10} M_{\odot}$ haloes of collisionless Cold Dark Matter (CDM) with galaxies simulated in the same haloes with an identical galaxy formation model but a non-zero…

Recent observations of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at high redshifts pose challenges to standard seeding mechanisms. Among competing models, the collapse of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos provide a plausible explanation for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Hua-Peng Gu , Fangzhou Jiang , Xian Chen , Ran Li

We study the formation and evolution of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos. We find analytical, fully cosmological similarity solutions for their dynamics, which take proper account of the collisional interaction of SIDM particles,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kyungjin Ahn , Paul R. Shapiro

The observed anti-correlation between the central dark matter (DM) densities of the bright Milky Way (MW) dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) and their orbital pericenter distances poses a potential signature of self-interacting dark matter…

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We study the formation and evolution of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos. We find analytical, fully cosmological similarity solutions taking account of the collisional interaction of SIDM particles. This interaction results in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Kyungjin Ahn , Paul R. Shapiro

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

We study the merger rate of primordial black holes (PBHs) in self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halo models. To explore a numerical description for the density profile of SIDM halo models, we use the result of a previously performed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-26 Saeed Fakhry , Mahdi Naseri , Javad T. Firouzjaee , Mehrdad Farhoudi

We use high-resolution hydrodynamical simulation to test the difference of halo properties in cold dark matter (CDM) and a self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) scenario with a constant cross-section of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-30 Giulia Despali , Martin Sparre , Simona Vegetti , Mark Vogelsberger , Jesús Zavala , Federico Marinacci

We present a detailed comparison of a Local Group dwarf galaxy analogue evolved in two cosmological models: the standard $\Lambda$CDM and a self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) model with a velocity-dependent cross-section. Both simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-08 Thales A. Gutcke , Giulia Despali , Stephanie O'Neil , Mark Vogelsberger , Azadeh Fattahi , David B. Sanders

We study evolution of single subhaloes with their masses of $\sim10^9 M_\odot$ in a Milky-Way-sized host halo for self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models. We perform dark-matter-only N-body simulations of dynamical evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Masato Shirasaki , Takashi Okamoto , Shin'ichiro Ando
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