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It has been suggested for a long time that dark matter would form a density spike around a black hole. However, no promising evidence has been observed so far to verify this theoretical suggestion. Here, we report the existence of a dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-08 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

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

Dark matter overdensities around black holes can be searched for by looking at the characteristic imprint they leave on the gravitational waveform of binary black hole mergers. Current theoretical predictions of the density profile of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-01 Gianfranco Bertone , A. Renske A. C. Wierda , Daniele Gaggero , Bradley J. Kavanagh , Marta Volonteri , Naoki Yoshida

The growth of a massive black hole will steepen the cold dark matter density at the center of a galaxy into a dense spike, enhancing the prospects for indirect detection. We study the impact of black hole spin on the density profile using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Francesc Ferrer , Augusto Medeiros da Rosa , Clifford M. Will

We show that density spikes begin to form from dark matter particles around primordial black holes immediately after their formation at the radiation-dominated cosmological stage. This follows from the fact that in the thermal velocity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-10 Yu. N. Eroshenko

The formation and evolution of Black Holes inevitably affects the distribution of dark and baryonic matter in the neighborhood of the Black Hole. These effects may be particularly relevant around Supermassive and Intermediate Mass Black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-19 Gianfranco Bertone , Mattia Fornasa , Marco Taoso , Andrew R. Zentner

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

Dark matter is theorised to form massive haloes, which could be further condensed into so-called spikes when a black hole grows at the centre of such a halo. The existence of these spikes is instrumental for several dark matter detection…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-26 Jasper Leonora P. D. Kamermans , A. Renske A. C. Wierda

Dark matter annihilation is proportional to the square of the density and is especially efficient in places of highest concentration of dark matter, such as dark matter spikes. The spikes are formed as a result of contraction of the dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-27 Alexander Belikov , Joseph Silk

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 formation of galaxies with warm dark matter is approximately adiabatic. The cold dark matter limit is singular and requires relaxation. In these lecture notes we develop, step-by-step, the physics of galaxies with warm dark matter, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-12 Bruce Hoeneisen

We develop an empirical approach to infer the star formation rate in dark matter halos from the galaxy stellar mass function (SMF) at different redshifts and the local cluster galaxy luminosity function (CGLF), which has a steeper faint end…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Zhankui Lu , Houjun Mo , Yu Lu , Neal Katz , Martin D. Weinberg , Frank C. van den Bosch , Xiaohu Yang

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

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

The dark matter (DM) density profile in the innermost region of the Galaxy remains an open question. In particular, while adiabatic growth of the supermassive black hole Sgr A$^\ast$ at the Galactic Center (GC) can induce a 'spike' in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-27 Dibya S. Chattopadhyay , P. S. Bhupal Dev , Yago Porto

At the cosmological stage of radiation dominance, dark matter density spikes should form around primordial black holes. In the case when dark matter particles are able to annihilate, the density in the central regions of the spikes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-30 Yury N. Eroshenko

The dark matter spike induced by the adiabatic growth of a massive black hole in a cuspy environment, may explain the thermal dark matter density required to fit the cut-off in the HESSJ1745-290 gamma-ray spectra as TeV dark matter signal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-27 V. Gammaldi , V. Avila-Reese , O. Valenzuela , A. X. Gonzalez-Morales , P. Salucci , F. Nesti

Primordial black holes may have been produced in the early stages of the thermal history of the Universe after cosmic inflation. If so, dark matter in the form of elementary particles can be subsequently accreted around these objects, in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-03 Mathieu Boudaud , Thomas Lacroix , Martin Stref , Julien Lavalle , Pierre Salati

In the local Universe, star formation is typically inefficient both globally and when considered as the fraction of gas converted into stars per local free-fall time. An important exception to this inefficiency is regions of high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-07 Michael Boylan-Kolchin

Black holes located within a dark matter cloud can create overdensity regions known as dark matter spikes. The presence of spikes modifies the gravitational-wave signals from binary systems through changes in the gravitational potential or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-06 Nicholas Speeney , Andrea Antonelli , Vishal Baibhav , Emanuele Berti
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