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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

In this paper, the second in a series of two, we justify two important assumptions on which the result is based that in course of a galaxy merger the slingshot ejection of bound stars is sufficiently efficient to allow a supermassive black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Christian Zier

In this Paper we consider a problem of formation and evolution of orbital parameters of a binary primordial black hole (PBH) due to gravitational interaction with clustering cold dark matter (CDM). Mass and initial separation have values,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Sergey Pilipenko , Maxim Tkachev , Pavel Ivanov

Binary black holes can form efficiently in dense young stellar clusters, such as the progenitors of globular clusters, via a combination of gravitational segregation and cluster evaporation. We use simple analytic arguments supported by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ryan O'Leary , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Frederic Rasio

Scalar fields of masses between $10^{-21}\rm{eV}/c^2$ and $10^{-11} \rm{eV}/c^2$ can exhibit enhanced gravitational interactions with black holes, and form scalar clouds around them. Such a cloud modifies the dynamics of a coalescing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-24 Cheng-Hsin Cheng , Giuseppe Ficarra , Helvi Witek

Primordial black hole (PBH) binaries experience strong gravitational perturbations in the case of their initial clustering, which significantly affects the dynamics of their mergers. In this work, we develop a new formalism to account for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Viktor Stasenko

We consider gravitational radiation and electromagnetic radiation from point mass binary with electric charges in a Keplerian orbit, and calculate the merger rate distribution of primordial black hole binaries with charges and a general…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 Lang Liu , Zong-Kuan Guo , Rong-Gen Cai , Sang Pyo Kim

Near-extremal primordial black holes stable over cosmological timescales may constitute a significant fraction of the dark matter. Due to their charge the coalescence rate of such black holes is enhanced inside clusters and the non-extremal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-24 Konstantinos Kritos , Joseph Silk

Data from the LIGO and Virgo detectors has confirmed that stellar-mass black holes can merge within a Hubble time, leaving behind massive remnant black holes. In some astrophysical environments such as globular clusters and AGN disks, it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-21 Zoheyr Doctor , Daniel Wysocki , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Daniel E. Holz , Ben Farr

We consider a black hole (BH) density cusp in a nuclear star cluster (NSC) hosting a supermassive back hole (SMBH) at its center. Assuming the stars and BHs inside the SMBH sphere of influence are mass-segregated, we calculate the number of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Alexander Rasskazov , Bence Kocsis

The cosmic merger rate density of black hole binaries (BHBs) can give us an essential clue to constraining the formation channels of BHBs, in light of current and forthcoming gravitational wave detections. Following a Monte Carlo approach,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-11 Michela Mapelli , Nicola Giacobbo , Emanuele Ripamonti , Mario Spera

Various laboratory-based experiments are underway attempting to detect dark matter directly. The event rates and detailed signals expected in these experiments depend on the dark matter phase space distribution on sub-milliparsec scales.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-31 Daniele S. M. Fantin , Michael R. Merrifield , Anne M. Green

We investigate the consequences of a model of the assembly and growth of massive black holes from primordial seeds, remnants of the first generation of stars in a hierarchical structure formation scenario. Our model traces the build-up of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marta Volonteri , Rosalba Perna

We examine the pairing process of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) down to scales of 20-100 pc using a set of N-body/SPH simulations of binary mergers of disk galaxies with mass ratios of 1:4 and 1:10. Our numerical experiments are designed…

The origin of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) residing in the centers of most galaxies remains a mystery. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) provided direct imaging of the SMBH Sgr A* at the Milky Way's center, indicating it likely spins…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-28 Yihan Wang , Bing Zhang

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are well-motivated candidates for cold dark matter and may also account for a fraction of the binary black hole mergers observed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration. In this study, we investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-30 Sourav Roy Chowdhury , Aritra Basak , Maxim Khlopov , Maxim Krasnov

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can be not only cold dark matter candidates but also progenitors of binary black holes observed by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration. The PBH mass can be shifted to the heavy distribution if multi-merger…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Lang Liu , Zhi-Qiang You , You Wu , Zu-Cheng Chen

Black hole binaries formed dynamically in globular clusters are believed to be one of the main sources of gravitational waves in the Universe. Here, we use our new population synthesis code, cBHBd, to determine the redshift evolution of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-04 Fabio Antonini , Mark Gieles

We discuss the properties of stellar mass black hole (BH) mergers induced by tidal encounters with a massive BH at galactic centres or potentially in dense star clusters. The tidal disruption of stellar binaries by a massive BH is known to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-31 Joseph John Fernández , Shiho Kobayashi

It was shown by (Nakamura et al. 1997), (Ioka et al. 1998), and (Sasaki et al. 2016) that primordial black holes (PBHs) binaries can form effectively at the cosmological stage of radiation dominance, and the merge of the PBHs in pairs can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-02 Yu. N. Eroshenko