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We simulate the adiabatic contraction of a dark matter (DM) distribution during the process of the star formation, paying particular attention to the phase space distribution of the DM particles after the contraction. Assuming the initial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-15 Fabio Capela , Maxim Pshirkov , Peter Tinyakov

The evolution of the dark matter distribution at the Galactic center is analyzed, which is caused by the combination of gravitational scattering on Galactic bulge stars and absorption by a supermassive black hole at the center of the bulge.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. I. Zelnikov , E. A. Vasiliev

Dark matter density spikes forming around adiabatically growing black holes can dramatically enhance indirect and direct detection signals. Canonical predictions, however, assume a zero-mass seed in a purely dark matter environment and do…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 Gonzalo Herrera , Abdelaziz Hussein , Lina Necib , Elliot Y. Davies , Xuejian Shen

The formation and evolution of superdense clumps (or subhalos) is studied. Such clumps of dark matter (DM) can be produced by many mechanisms, most notably by spiky features in the spectrum of inflationary perturbations and by cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-06 V. Berezinsky , V. Dokuchaev , Yu. Eroshenko , M. Kachelriess , M. Aa. Solberg

A central black hole can attract a dark matter cluster and generate a spike in the density profile, as demonstrated by detailed analysis of Schwarzschild and Kerr black holes in the past. Do different black holes attract dark matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-13 Minghong Yu , Towe Wang

Particle dark matter near the galactic center is accreted by the central black hole into a dense spike, strongly enhancing its annihilation rate. Searching for its annihilation products may give us information on the presence or absence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Paolo Gondolo , Joseph Silk

The evolution of dark matter in central areas of galaxies is considered (the Milky Way is taken as an example). It is driven by scattering off of dark matter particles by bulge stars, their absorption by the supermassive black hole and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Eugene Vasiliev , Maxim Zelnikov

We present a new method to measure or constrain p-wave-suppressed cross sections for dark matter (DM) annihilations inside the steep density spikes induced by supermassive black holes. We demonstrate that the high DM densities, together…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-09 Jessie Shelton , Stuart L. Shapiro , Brian D. Fields

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) naturally gives rise to a cored isothermal density profile, which is favored in observations of many dwarf galaxies. The dark matter distribution in the presence of a central black hole in an isothermal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-19 Gerardo Alvarez , Hai-Bo Yu

The distribution of dark matter around galactic or cluster halos has usually been assumed to be approximately isothermal with a non-zero core radius, which is expected to be of the order of the size of the visible matter distribution.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Ricardo A. Flores , Joel R. Primack

We characterize the overdensity (spike) of fermionic dark matter (DM) particles around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) within a general relativistic analysis. The initial DM halo distribution is obtained by solving the equilibrium…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-03 Valentina Crespi , Carlos R. Argüelles , Jorge A. Rueda

Hawking evaporation of primordial black holes (PBH) with masses ranging from $\sim 10^{-1}$ to $\sim 10^9$ g can generate the whole observed dark matter (DM) relic density. However, a second DM production mechanism, like freeze-out or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Nicolás Bernal , Óscar Zapata

Through numerical experiments, we have predicted that if dark matter (DM) contains even a small fraction, $f_0\sim10^{-4}$, of primordial black holes (PBHs), during the formation of the gravitationally bound halo of a dwarf galaxy, these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-31 S. V. Pilipenko , M. V. Tkachev , N. R. Arakelyan

Precise measurements of the stellar orbits around Sagittarius A* have established the existence of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the Galactic centre (GC). Due to the interplay between the SMBH and dark matter (DM), the DM density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-23 Zhao-Qiang Shen , Guan-Wen Yuan , Cheng-Zi Jiang , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan

Angular momentum plays very important roles in the formation of PBHs in the matter-dominated phase if it lasts sufficiently long. In fact, most collapsing masses are bounced back due to centrifugal force, since angular momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-20 Tomohiro Harada , Chul-Moon Yoo , Kazunori Kohri , Ken-Ichi Nakao

Dark matter halos can develop a density spike, e.g., around a galactic supermassive black hole, with the profile $\rho \propto r^{-\gamma_{\rm sp}}$ determined both by the galaxy's formation history and the microphysics of dark matter. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-07 Avinash Tiwari , Prolay Chanda , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Susmita Adhikari , Aditya Vijaykumar , Basudeb Dasgupta

In this article, we calculate the mass distribution of primordial black holes (PBHs) formed in the matter-dominated (MD) era by the peak theory. We apply the Zel'dovich approximation to track the nonlinear evolution of overdensities and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Weitao Ye , Yungui Gong , Tomohiro Harada , Zhaofeng Kang , Kazunori Kohri , Daiki Saito , Chul-Moon Yoo

We propose a novel mechanism where Primordial Black Hole (PBH) dark matter is formed much later in the history of the universe between the epoch of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) and Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) photon decoupling. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-24 Amlan Chakraborty , Prolay K Chanda , Kanhaiya Lal Pandey , Subinoy Das

Formation and disruption of dark-matter cusps are reviewed. Accumulation of baryons at the center of a halo can displace the dark matter, converting singular density cusps into low-density cores. The displaced mass can be of order 10 M_b…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Merritt , Milos Milosavljevic

The formation and growth of black holes can strongly influence the distribution of dark matter around them. I discuss here the different types of dark matter overdensities around black holes, including dark matter cusps, spikes, mounds,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-18 Gianfranco Bertone