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Observations of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at high redshifts challenge standard seeding scenarios. We examine a dissipative self-interacting dark matter (dSIDM) model in which gravothermal collapse leads to the formation of massive BH…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-02 Tingwei Shen , Xuejian Shen , Huangyu Xiao , Mark Vogelsberger , Fangzhou Jiang

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

The presence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs, $M_{\bullet}\sim 10^{6-10}~M_{\odot}$) in the first cosmic Gyr ($z\gtrsim 6$) challenges current models of BH formation and evolution. We propose a novel mechanism for the formation of early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-07 Francesco Ziparo , Simona Gallerani , Andrea Ferrara

We investigate how supermassive black hole (SMBH) seeds form in the early Universe at the centers of ultralight dark matter (ULDM) halos. Focusing on the ULDM Jeans scale, we identify the critical conditions under which high-redshift…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-10 Dongsu Bak , Jae-Weon Lee

We investigate the abundance of Super-Massive Black Hole (SMBH) seeds in primordial galaxy halos. We explore the assumption that dark matter halos outgrowing a critical halo mass M_c have some probability p of having spawned a SMBH seed.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-03 Johannes Buchner , Ezequiel Treister , Franz E. Bauer , Lia F. Sartori , Kevin Schawinski

A central supermassive black hole (SMBH) with a mass $10^6-10^9 M_\odot$ appears to be a common feature in nearby galaxies and the likely power source in quasars and active galactic nuclei. We demonstrate that the formation of a central…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Shmuel Balberg , Stuart L. Shapiro

Observations show that supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with a mass of $\sim10^9 M_\odot$ exist when the Universe is just $6\%$ of its current age. We propose a scenario where a self-interacting dark matter halo experiences gravothermal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 Wei-Xiang Feng , Hai-Bo Yu , Yi-Ming Zhong

The rapid emergence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the early Universe poses a challenge to current models of black hole growth. One promising formation pathway is the direct collapse black hole (DCBH) scenario, in which gas in…

The existence of supermassive black holes at high redshifts ($z\sim7$) is difficult to accommodate in standard astrophysical scenarios. It has been shown that dark matter models with a subdominant self-interacting component are able to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-29 Jeremie Choquette , James M. Cline , Jonathan M. Cornell

Observations of high-redshift quasars indicate that super massive black holes (SMBHs) with masses greater than ${\sim}10^9~M_\odot$ were assembled within the first billion years after the Big Bang. It is unclear how such massive black holes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-26 Eli Visbal , Zoltan Haiman

The presence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at high redshifts ($z>5$), as revealed by James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), challenges standard black hole (BH) formation scenarios. We propose a mechanism in which non-annihilating dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-05 Sulagna Bhattacharya , Debajit Bose , Basudeb Dasgupta , Jaya Doliya , Ranjan Laha

The supermassive black holes (SMBHs) massive enough to power the bright redshift ~6 quasars observed in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) are thought to have assembled by mergers and/or gas accretion from less massive "seed" BHs. If the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Takamitsu Tanaka , Zoltán Haiman

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

High redshift observations of 10$^9$ M$_\odot$ supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at $z \sim7$ and `Little Red Dots' that may host overmassive black holes at $z>4$ suggests the existence of so-called heavy seeds (>1000 M$_\odot$) in the early…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-18 Lewis R. Prole , John A. Regan , Daniel J. Whalen , Simon C. O. Glover , Ralf S. Klessen

Presence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with mass $(10^{6}-10^{9}) M_{\odot}$ at $z = 10$ has been recently revealed by James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations. In this study we generate seeds for the above range of SMBHs in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-02 Nirmali Das , Sanjeev Kalita , Ankita Kakati

We use numerical simulations to explore whether direct collapse can lead to the formation of SMBH seeds at high-z. We follow the evolution of gas within DM halos of 2 x 10^8 Mo and 1 kpc. We adopt cosmological density profiles and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jun-Hwan Choi , Isaac Shlosman , Mitchell C. Begelman

The recent observations of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at high redshift challenge our understanding of their formation and growth. There are different proposed pathways to form black hole (BH) seeds, such as the remnants of the first…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-22 Tilman Hartwig

The nature of the seeds of high-redshift supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is a key question in cosmology. Direct collapse black holes (DCBH) that form in pristine, atomic-line cooling halos, illuminated by a Lyman-Werner (LW) UV flux…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Mark Dijkstra , Andrea Ferrara , Andrei Mesinger

We present a theoretical framework for seeding and growing supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in dark matter halos along their assembly histories. Seeds are bred out of Pop-III stars formed during the first collapse of pristine gas in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-28 Yangyao Chen , Houjun Mo , Huiyuan Wang

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
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