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We construct exact black hole solutions free of curvature singularities, sourced by dark matter halos described by galactic density profiles. Regularity of the geometry is ensured by adopting the relation $P_{r}=-\rho$ between radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-09 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

We perform a series of high-resolution N-body simulations designed to examine the density profiles of dark matter halos. From 12 simulated halos ranging the mass of $2\times10^{12}\sim 5\times10^{14} h^{-1}{\rm M_\odot}$ (represented by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. P. Jing , Yasushi Suto

We investigate the formation of virialized halos due to the gravitational collapse of collisionless matter using high-resolution N-body simulations. A variety of formation scenarios are studied, ranging from hierarchical clustering to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Andreas Huss , Bhuvnesh Jain , Matthias Steinmetz

Dark matter particles form halos that contribute the major part of the mass of galaxy clusters. The formation of these cosmological structures have been investigated both observationally and in numerical simulations, which have confirmed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-05 Ole Host

The radial mass distribution of dark matter haloes is investigated within the framework of the spherical infall model. We present a new formulation of spherical collapse including non-radial motions, and compare the analytical profiles with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Ascasibar , G. Yepes , S. Gottloeber , V. Mueller

Cosmological simulations consistently predict specific properties of dark matter halos, but these have not yet led to a physical understanding that is generally accepted. This is especially true for the central regions of these structures.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 R. N. Henriksen

Adaptive SPH and N-body simulations were carried out to study the evolution of the equilibrium structure of dark matter halos that result from the gravitational instability and fragmentation of cosmological pancakes. Such halos resemble…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Marcelo Alvarez , Paul R. Shapiro , Hugo Martel

We present distributions of the orbital parameters of dark matter substructures at the time of merging into their host halo. Accurate knowledge of the orbits of dark matter substructures is a crucial input to studies which aim to assess the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-23 Andrew J. Benson

This study investigates the gravitational dynamics of a spherically symmetric black hole embedded within a dark matter halo, focusing on the impact of the dark matter halo on time-like particle geodesics. We analyze key orbital parameters,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-29 Sumarna Haroon , Tao Zhu

Dark-matter halos are the scaffolding around which galaxies and clusters are built. They form when the gravitational instability of primordial density fluctuations causes regions which are denser than average to slow their cosmic expansion,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ilian T. Iliev , Paul R. Shapiro

We investigate the internal structure of cold dark matter halos using high resolution N-body simulations. As the mass and force resolution are increased, halo density profiles become steeper, asymptoting to a slope of $\sim -4/3$ in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ben Moore , Sebastiano Ghigna , Fabio Governato , George Lake , Tom Quinn , Joachim Stadel

The main objective of this work is to determine the character of orbits of stars moving in the meridional $(R,z)$ plane of an axially symmetric time-independent disk galaxy model with a central massive nucleus and an additional spherical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-14 Euaggelos E. Zotos

The balance of evidence indicates that individual galaxies and groups or clusters of galaxies are embedded in enormous distributions of cold, weakly interacting dark matter. These dark matter 'halos' provide the scaffolding for all luminous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-26 James E. Taylor

The radial density profile of dark matter structures has been observed to have an almost universal behaviour in numerical simulations, however, the physical reason for this behaviour remains unclear. It has previously been shown that if the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kasper B. Schmidt , Steen H. Hansen , Andrea V. Maccio'

We examine the bar instability in galactic models with an exponential disk and a cuspy dark matter (DM) halo with a Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) cosmological density profile. We construct equilibrium models from a 3-integral composite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 John Dubinski , Ingo Berentzen , Isaac Shlosman

The initial orbits of infalling subhalos largely determine the subsequent evolution of the subhalos and satellite galaxies therein and shed light on the assembly of their hosts. Using a large set of cosmological simulations of various…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Zhao-Zhou Li , Dong-Hai Zhao , Y. P. Jing , Jiaxin Han , Fu-Yu Dong

We investigate the structure of the dark matter halo formed in the cold dark matter scenario using $N$-body simulations. We simulated 12 halos with the mass of $6.6\times 10^{11}M_{\odot}$ to $8.0\times 10^{14}M_{\odot}$. In almost all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Toshiyuki Fukushige , Junichiro Makino

Observations show that the underlying rotation curves at intermediate radii in spiral and low-surface brightness galaxies are nearly universal. Further, in these same galaxies, the product of the central density and the core radius…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 F. D. A. Hartwick

We examine the properties of dark matter halos within a rich galaxy cluster using a high resolution simulation that captures the cosmological context of a cold dark matter universe. The mass and force resolution permit the resolution of 150…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Sebastiano Ghigna , Ben Moore , Fabio Governato , George Lake , Thomas Quinn , Joachim Stadel

We carry out fully 3-dimensional simulations of evolution from self-similar, spherically symmetric linear perturbations of a Cold Dark Matter dominated Einstein-de Sitter universe. As a result of the radial orbit instability, the haloes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Mark Vogelsberger , Roya Mohayaee , Simon D. M. White