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We study the prospects for detecting gamma-rays from Dark Matter (DM) annihilations in enhancements of the DM density (mini-spikes) around intermediate-mass black holes with masses in the range $10^2 \lsim M / \msun \lsim 10^6$. Focusing on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gianfranco Bertone , Andrew R. Zentner , Joseph Silk

The proposal of a galactic population of intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs), forming dark matter (DM) ``mini-spikes'' around them, has received considerable attention in recent years. In fact, leading in some scenarios to large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 Torsten Bringmann , Julien Lavalle , Pierre Salati

Recently, the evidence for gamma-ray emission has been found in the $Fermi$-LAT observation for the outer halo of Andromeda galaxy (M31). The dark matter (DM) annihilation offers a possible explanation on the gamma-ray radiation. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-23 Zi-Qing Xia , Zhao-Qiang Shen , Xu Pan , Lei Feng , Yi-Zhong Fan

We argue that the Milky Way (MW) contains thousands intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) and minihalos with a fraction of IMBHs still being enshrouded in extremely dense mini-spikes of dark matter (DM) particles. Each containing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 HongSheng Zhao , Joseph Silk

Dark matter (DM) annihilation could in principle contribute to the diffuse cosmic gamma-ray back- ground (CGB). While with standard assumptions for cosmological and particle physics parameters this contribution is expected to be rather…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 Marco Taoso , Shin'ichiro Ando , Gianfranco Bertone , Stefano Profumo

Annihilating dark matter (DM) has been discussed as a possible source of gamma-rays from the galactic center (GC) and contributing to the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB). Assuming universality of the density profile of DM halos, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shin'ichiro Ando

Intermediate Mass Black Holes (IMBHs) with a mass range between $100 \, \text{M}_\odot$ and $10^6 \, \text{M}_\odot$ are expected to be surrounded by high dark matter densities, so-called dark matter spikes. The high density of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-10 J. Aschersleben , G. Bertone , D. Horns , E. Moulin , R. F. Peletier , M. Vecchi

Intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs), with masses ranging from a hundred and a million solar masses, are hypothesised to be surrounded by dense regions of dark matter known as dark matter spikes, where the annihilation of dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-06 Jann Aschersleben , Dieter Horns , Emmanuel Moulin , Manuela Vecchi

Intermediate Mass Black Holes (IMBHs) are candidates to seed the Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs), and some could still wander in the Galaxy. In the context of annihilating dark matter (DM), they are expected to drive huge annihilation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Julien Lavalle

If dark matter is composed of neutralinos, one of the most exciting prospects for its detection lies in observations of the gamma-ray radiation created in pair annihilations between neutralinos, a process that may contribute significantly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-08 Jesus Zavala , Volker Springel , Michael Boylan-Kolchin

If dark matter is composed of neutralinos, the gamma-ray radiation produced in their annihilation offers an attractive possibility for dark matter detection. This process may contribute significantly to the extragalactic gamma-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-20 Jesus Zavala , Volker Springel , Michael Boylan-Kolchin

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

The dark matter (DM) distributed around an intermediate massive black hole (IMBH) forms an overdensity region called DM minispike. We consider the binary system which consists of an IMBH with DM minispike and a small black hole inspiralling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-14 Ning Dai , Yungui Gong , Tong Jiang , Dicong Liang

An intermediate mass black hole (IMBH) may have a dark matter (DM) mini-halo around it and develop a spiky structure within less than a parsec from the IMBH. When a stellar mass object is captured by the mini-halo, it eventually infalls…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-03 Kazunari Eda , Yousuke Itoh , Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Joseph Silk

We derive the upper limit on the dark matter (DM) fraction in primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mixed DM scenarios. In this scenarios, a PBH can accrete weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) to form a ultracompact minihalo (UCMH)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-06 Yupeng Yang , Xiujuan Li , Gang Li

The fast developments of radio astronomy open a new window to explore the properties of Dark Matter (DM). The recent direct imaging of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of M87 radio galaxy by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-18 Guan-Wen Yuan , Zhan-Fang Chen , Zhao-Qiang Shen , Wen-Qing Guo , Ran Ding , Xiaoyuan Huang , Qiang Yuan

We explore the possibility that the annihilation of dark matter (DM) is boosted due to enhanced substructure in the presence of primordial black holes (PBHs) which constitute a sub-component of DM. The PBHs can generate entropy fluctuations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Kenji Kadota , Joseph Silk

Primordial black holes (PBHs) formed in the early Universe can accret dark matter particles due to gravity and form ultracompact minihalos (UCMHs). The theoretical researches and simulations have shown that the density profile of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-08 Yupeng Yang

Gravitational waves (GWs) can be produced if a stellar compact object, such as a black hole (BH) or neutron star, inspirals into an intermediate-massive black hole (IMBH) of $(10^3 \sim 10^5)\,M_\odot$. Such a system may be produced in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-02 Xiao-Jun Yue , Wen-Biao Han , Xian Chen

(Abridged) The extragalactic background light (EBL) observed at multiple wavelengths is a promising tool to probe the nature of dark matter since it might contain a significant contribution from gamma-rays produced promptly by dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-30 Jesus Zavala , Mark Vogelsberger , Tracy R. Slatyer , Abraham Loeb , Volker Springel
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