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We consider the intermediate mass-ratio inspiral of a stellar-mass compact object with an intermediate-mass black hole that is surrounded by a dark matter density spike. The interaction of the inspiraling black hole with the dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-18 Fani Dosopoulou

Future gravitational wave interferometers such as LISA, Taiji, DECIGO, and TianQin, will enable precision studies of the environment surrounding black holes. In this paper, we study intermediate and extreme mass ratio binary black hole…

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

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

Galaxy mergers produce supermassive black hole binaries, which emit gravitational waves prior to their coalescence. We perform three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations to study the tidal disruption of stars by such a binary in the final…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-18 Kimitake Hayasaki , Abraham Loeb

Cold dark matter may form dense structures around supermassive black holes (SMBHs), significantly influencing their local environments. These dense regions are ideal sites for the formation of extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), in which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 Chen Feng , Yong Tang , Yue-Liang Wu

In this paper, we investigate the effects of a dark matter (DM) spike on the neighborhood of Sgr A*, the black hole (BH) in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Our main goal is to investigate whether current and future astronomical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-06 Sourabh Nampalliwar , Saurabh K. , Kimet Jusufi , Qiang Wu , Mubasher Jamil , Paolo Salucci

We consider the spike mass density profile in a dark halo by self-consistently solving the relativistic Bondi accretion of dark matter onto a non-spining black hole of mass $M$. We assume that the dominant component of the dark matter in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-23 Wei-Xiang Feng , Alessandro Parisi , Chian-Shu Chen , Feng-Li Lin

We explore the possible spectrum of binary mergers of sub-solar mass black holes formed out of dark matter particles interacting via a dark electromagnetism. We estimate the properties of these dark black holes by assuming that their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-14 Sarah Shandera , Donghui Jeong , Henry S. Grasshorn Gebhardt

It has been suggested that primordial black holes (PBHs) of roughly 30 solar masses could make up the dark matter and if so, might account for the recent detections by LIGO involving binary black holes in this mass range. It has also been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-26 Hiroya Nishikawa , Ely D. Kovetz , Marc Kamionkowski , Joseph Silk

We present the first search for gravitational waves from the coalescence of stellar mass and sub-solar mass black holes with masses between $20 - 100~\mathrm{M}_{\odot}$ and $0.01 - 1~\mathrm{M}_{\odot}~($10 - 10^3$~\mathrm{M}_{J})$,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-20 Alexander Harvey Nitz , Yi-Fan Wang

Dark matter overdensities around black holes can alter the dynamical evolution of a companion object orbiting around it, and cause a dephasing of the gravitational waveform. Here, we present a refined calculation of the co-evolution of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 Theophanes K. Karydas , Bradley J. Kavanagh , Gianfranco Bertone

We want to explain non-observation of electromagnetic counterpart of currently confirmed ten gravitational wave signals from the black hole mergers assuming their existence in the hidden mirror universe. Mirror matter, which interacts with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-18 Revaz Beradze , Merab Gogberashvili

If a lot of dark matter particles accumulate near the black hole, then the chances of detecting dark matter signals near a black hole are greatly increased. These effects may be observed by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), Tianqin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-29 Zhaoyi Xu , Jiancheng Wang

Numerous observations have shown that almost all galaxies in our Universe host supermassive black holes (SMBHs), but there is still much debate about their formation and evolutionary processes. Recently, gravitational waves (GWs) have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-26 Kazuya Furusawa , Hiroyuki Tashiro , Shuichiro Yokoyama , Kiyotomo Ichiki

Large dark matter overdensities can form around black holes of astrophysical and primordial origin as they form and grow. This "dark dress" inevitably affects the dynamical evolution of binary systems, and induces a dephasing in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-04 Adam Coogan , Gianfranco Bertone , Daniele Gaggero , Bradley J. Kavanagh , David A. Nichols

We review the state of the evidence for the existence and observational appearance of supermassive black hole binaries. Such objects are expected from standard hierarchical galaxy evolution to form after two galaxies, each containing a…

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

Stellar mass black holes (BHs) are expected to segregate and form a steep density cusp around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galactic nuclei. We follow the evolution of a multi-mass system of BHs and stars by numerically integrating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ryan M. O'Leary , Bence Kocsis , Abraham Loeb

If the supermassive black hole Sgr A* at the center of the Milky Way grew adiabatically from an initial seed embedded in an NFW dark matter (DM) halo, then the DM profile near the hole has steepened into a spike. We calculate the dramatic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-15 Brian D. Fields , Stuart L. Shapiro , Jessie Shelton