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This study delves into the existence of dark matter around supermassive black holes in galactic cores using a novel gravitational model. By analyzing gravitational waves emitted during the ringdown phase of black holes under different field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-14 Jie Liang , Dong Liu , Hao-Jie Lin , Zheng-Wen Long

Scalar Field Dark Matter (SFDM), comprised of ultralight ($\gtrsim 10^{-22}$ eV) bosons, is distinguished from massive ($\gtrsim$ GeV), collisionless Cold Dark Matter (CDM) by its novel structure-formation dynamics as Bose-Einstein…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 Sonja O. Schobesberger , Tanja Rindler-Daller , Paul R. Shapiro

Using a single gravitational lens system observed at $\lesssim5$ milli-arcsecond resolution with very long baseline interferometry (VLBI), we place a lower bound on the mass of the fuzzy dark matter (FDM) particle, ruling out $m_\chi \leq…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Devon M. Powell , Simona Vegetti , J. P. McKean , Simon D. M. White , Elisa G. M. Ferreira , Simon May , Cristiana Spingola

One of the challenging questions in cosmology is the nature of dark matter particles. Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) is one of the candidates which is made of very light ($m_{FDM}\simeq 10^{-22}-10^{-21}$ eV) bosonic particles with no…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-22 Alireza Maleki , Shant Baghram , Sohrab Rahvar

In a warm dark matter (WDM) cosmology, the first objects to form at z>=20 are one dimensional filaments with mean length on the order of the WDM free-streaming scale. Gao and Theuns recently claimed by using high-resolution hydrodynamic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Hyunmi Song , Jounghun Lee

While, to ensure successful cosmology, dark matter (DM) must kinematically decouple from the standard model plasma very early in the history of the Universe, it can remain coupled to a bath of "dark radiation" until a relatively late epoch.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-05 Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Kris Sigurdson

We perform head-on collision simulations of compact dark matter subhalos using distinct numerical methods for fuzzy dark matter (FDM) and cold dark matter (CDM) models. For FDM, we solve the Schr\"odinger-Poisson equations with a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-19 Hyeonmo Koo

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a well motivated candidate for dark matter (DM) as its tiny mass and large de-Broglie wavelength suppress small-scale matter fluctuations, thereby solving some of the small-scale discrepancies in $\Lambda$CDM.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Jordan Flitter , Ely D. Kovetz

We derive non-relativistic equations of motion for the formation of cosmological structure in a Scalar Field Dark Matter (SFDM) model corresponding to a complex scalar field endowed with a quadratic scalar potential. Starting with the full…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-29 L. Arturo Urena-Lopez

We present an overview of scenarios where the observed Dark Matter (DM) abundance consists of Feebly Interacting Massive Particles (FIMPs), produced non-thermally by the so-called freeze-in mechanism. In contrast to the usual freeze-out…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-22 Nicolás Bernal , Matti Heikinheimo , Tommi Tenkanen , Kimmo Tuominen , Ville Vaskonen

Superfluid dark matter (SFDM) is a model that promises to reproduce the successes of both particle dark matter on cosmological scales and those of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) on galactic scales. SFDM reproduces MOND only up to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-07 Tobias Mistele , Stacy McGaugh , Sabine Hossenfelder

We present a new implementation of fuzzy dark matter (FDM) dynamical friction within the galpy framework, enabling orbital integrations of globular clusters (GCs) across a broad range of halo-to-GC mass ratios and boson masses. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-08 Adrian Szpilfidel , Pierre Boldrini , Jo Bovy , Paola Di Matteo

We investigate cosmological structure formation in Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) with an attractive self-interaction (SI) with numerical simulations. Such a SI would arise if the FDM boson were an ultra-light axion, which has a strong CP…

The conventional cold, particle interpretation of dark matter (CDM) still lacks laboratory support and struggles with the basic properties of common dwarf galaxies, which have surprisingly uniform central masses and shallow density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-26 Hsi-Yu Schive , Tzihong Chiueh , Tom Broadhurst

Dark matter (DM) refers to a new type of matter that may explain observed rotation curves of galaxies and the composite structure of the Universe. It may couple to the Standard Model particles via portals, which include the possibility of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-30 Vindhyawasini Prasad

Dark photon is a massive vector field which interacts only with the physical photon through the kinetic mixing. This coupling is assumed to be weak so that the dark photon becomes almost unobservable in processes with elementary particles,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 V. V. Flambaum , I. B. Samsonov

Cold dark matter simulations appear to disagree with the observations on small distance scales. Here we consider a modified description of CDM particles which is implied by a new fundamental theory: In this picture, the dark matter is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antonio R. Mondragon , Roland E. Allen

We propose a quantum mechanical theory of quantum spaces described by large $N$ noncommutative geometry as a model for quantum gravity. The model admits fuzzy sphere as static solution. Over the fuzzy geometry, the quantum mechanics of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-13 Chong-Sun Chu

On large cosmological scales, anisotropic gravitational collapse is manifest in the dark cosmic web. Its statistical properties are little known for alternative dark matter models such as fuzzy dark matter (FDM). In this work, we assess for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-17 Tibor Dome , Anastasia Fialkov , Nina Sartorio , Philip Mocz

Warm dark matter (WDM) is an intriguing model of structure formation from the point of view of both cosmology and particle physics. We consider a one-parameter family of WDM models. The linear power spectra for these models is calculated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Stephane Colombi , Scott Dodelson , Lawrence M. Widrow