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The nature of dark matter is still mysterious despite various astronomical evidence. As a possible candidate, self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) can potentially resolve some issues appearing in cold dark matter paradigm. Here we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-03 Mu-Chun Chen , Yong Tang

Supermassive black holes have been discovered at the centers of galaxies, and also in globular clusters. The data shows correlations between the black hole mass and the elliptical galaxy mass or globular cluster mass. It is shown that this…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Reginald T. Cahill

We develop a theory of dark matter based on a previously proposed picture, in which a complex vacuum scalar field makes the universe a superfluid, with the energy density of the superfluid giving rise to dark energy, and variations from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-30 Kerson Huang , Chi Xiong , Xiaofei Zhao

We derive the finite-temperature equation of state of dark matter superfluids with 2-body and 3-body contact interactions. The latter case is relevant to a recently proposed model of dark matter superfluidity that unifies the collisionless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-05 Anushrut Sharma , Justin Khoury , Tom Lubensky

Ambient dark matter (DM) around binary black holes can imprint characteristic signatures on gravitational waves emitted from their merger. The exact signature depends sensitively on the DM density profile around the black holes. We run very…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-05 Shingo Hirano , Naoki Yoshida

The accumulation of dark matter particles near the primordial black holes starts at the radiation-dominated cosmological stage and produces the central density spikes. The spikes can be the bright gamma-ray sources due to dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-02 Yu. N. Eroshenko

For almost two decades the properties of "dwarf" galaxies have challenged the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) paradigm of galaxy formation. Most observed dwarf galaxies consists of a rotating stellar disc embedded in a massive DM halo with a near…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Fabio Governato , Chris Brook , Lucio Mayer , Alyson Brooks , George Rhee , James Wadsley , Patrik Jonsson , Beth Willman , Greg Stinson , Thomas Quinn , Piero Madau

The interplay between supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their surrounding environment is fundamental to understanding galactic evolution. This work investigates the influence of a cold dark matter (DM) halo on the dynamics of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Avijit Chowdhury , Gargi Sen , Sayan Chakrabarti , Santabrata Das

Cosmological simulations of the $\Lambda$CDM model suggest that the dark matter halos of dwarf galaxies are denser in their center than what observational data of such galaxies imply. In this letter, we propose a novel solution to this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-18 Xiaoyong Chu , Camilo Garcia-Cely

In this paper we construct a black hole solution surrounded by superfluid dark matter (BH-SFDM) and baryonic matter, and study their effects on the shadow images of the Sgr A$^{*}$ black hole. To achieve this goal, we have considered two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-12 Kimet Jusufi , Mubasher Jamil , Tao Zhu

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

We study the possibility of identifying dark matter in the galactic center from the physical properties of the electromagnetic radiation emitted from a optical-thin disk region around a static and spherically symmetric black hole. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-03 Saurabh , Kimet Jusufi

The idea of self-interacting bosonic dark matter capable of exhibiting superfluidity is revisited. We show that the most interesting parameter space of the theory corresponds to fully thermalized dark matter halos. As a result the entire…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Lasha Berezhiani , Giordano Cintia , Justin Khoury

Models of superdense star clusters at the center of galaxies are investigated to see whether such objects can be stable and long-lived based on evaporation and collision time-scales and stability criteria. We find that physically reasonable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 J. W. Moffat

Observations of density profiles of galaxies and clusters constrain the properties of dark matter. Formation of stable halos by collisional fluids with very low mass particles appears as the most probable interpretation, while halos formed…

General Physics · Physics 2011-04-14 Ernst Fischer

We compare new maps of the hot gas, dark matter, and galaxies for 1E0657-56, a cluster with a rare, high-velocity merger occurring nearly in the plane of the sky. The X-ray observations reveal a bullet-like gas subcluster just exiting the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Markevitch , A. H. Gonzalez , D. Clowe , A. Vikhlinin , L. David , W. Forman , C. Jones , S. Murray , W. Tucker

Cold Dark Matter (CDM) has become the standard modern theory of cosmological structure formation. Its predictions appear to be in good agreement with data on large scales, and it naturally accounts for many properties of galaxies. But…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joel R. Primack

Dark matter (DM) can form dense condensates around black holes (BHs), such as superradiant clouds and ultracompact mini halos, which can significantly affect the orbital evolution of their companion objects through dynamical friction (DF).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-22 Qianhang Ding , Minxi He , Hui-Yu Zhu

Dark matter self-interactions have important implications for the distributions of dark matter in the Universe, from dwarf galaxies to galaxy clusters. We present benchmark models that illustrate characteristic features of dark matter that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-25 Manoj Kaplinghat , Sean Tulin , Hai-Bo Yu

In this paper we present a new black hole solution surrounded by dark matter halo in the galactic center using the mass model of M87 and that coming from the Universal Rotation Curve (URC) dark matter profile representing family of spiral…

General Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Kimet Jusufi , Mubasher Jamil , Paolo Salucci , Tao Zhu , Sumarna Haroon