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Among the most fundamental properties of a dark matter halo is its density profile. Motivated by the recent proposal by Garc\'ia et al. [R. Garc\'ia et. al., MNRAS 521, 2464 (2023)] to define a dynamical halo as the collection of orbiting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-02 Tristen Shields , Edgar M. Salazar , Eduardo Rozo , Aakanksha Adya , Calvin Osinga , Ze'ev Vladimir

In the cold dark matter scenario, the smallest dark matter halos may be earth mass or smaller. These microhalos would be the densest dark matter objects in the Universe, making their accurate characterization important for astrophysical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 M. Sten Delos

Supermassive black holes inhabit galactic nuclei, and their presence influences in crucial ways the evolution of the stellar distribution. The low-density cores observed in bright galaxies are probably a result of black hole infall, while…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-29 David Merritt

It is now well-established that a dark, compact object (DCO), very likely a massive black hole (MBH) of around four million solar masses is lurking at the centre of the Milky Way. While a consensus is emerging about the origin and growth of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Pau Amaro-Seoane

A dark matter halo model is developed postulating a new state of matter, entities which have internal spin-like terms. Their motion in an external Schwarzschild metric is discussed. The internal spin motion contributes to the centrifugal…

General Physics · Physics 2017-05-25 H. L. Helfer

We investigate the orientation of the axes and angular momentum of dark matter halos with respect to their neighboring voids using high resolution N-body cosmological simulations. We find that the minor axis of halos tends to be aligned…

An overview is presented of the main properties of dark matter haloes, as we know them from observations, essentially from rotation curves around spiral and dwarf galaxies. Detailed rotation curves are now known for more than a thousand…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 F. Combes

Almost every galaxy in the local Universe is observed to have a massive black hole in the centre. The properties of these black holes are observed to tightly correlate with those of their host galaxy which has been interpreted as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-01 Ricarda S. Beckmann , Rebecca J. Smethurst

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

Dynamical, non-asymptotically flat black holes are best characterized by their apparent horizons. Cosmological black hole solutions of General Relativity exhibit two types of apparent horizon behaviours which, thus far, appeared to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-25 Valerio Faraoni , Angus Prain

In our modern understanding of galaxy formation, every galaxy forms within a dark matter halo. The formation and growth of galaxies over time is connected to the growth of the halos in which they form. The advent of large galaxy surveys as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 Risa H. Wechsler , Jeremy L. Tinker

The distribution of the non-luminous matter in galaxies of different luminosity and Hubble type is much more than a proof of the existence of dark particles governing the structures of the Universe. Here, we will review the complex but…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-25 Paolo Salucci

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

The interplay between supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their surrounding environment is fundamental to understanding galactic evolution. This work investigates the influence of a cold dark matter (DM) halo on the dynamics of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Avijit Chowdhury , Gargi Sen , Sayan Chakrabarti , Santabrata Das

Based on a set of cosmological N-body simulations we analyze properties of the dark matter haloes (DM) in a galaxy mass range ($10^{11} - 10^{13} h^{-1}M_{\odot}$) in modified $\lcdm$ cosmology with additional dynamically screened scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-31 Wojciech A. Hellwing

The present lecture notes are an introduction to selected topics of {\it Galactic Dynamics}. The focus is on topics that we consider more relevant to the main theme of this workshop, {\it Celestial Mechanics}. This is not intended to be a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Christos Efthymiopoulos , Nikos Voglis , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

We study the relations between the mass of the central black hole (BH) $M_{\rm BH}$, the dark matter halo mass $M_{\rm h}$, and the stellar-to-halo mass fraction $f_\star\propto M_\star/M_{\rm h}$ in a sample of $55$ nearby galaxies with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-25 A. Marasco , G. Cresci , L. Posti , F. Fraternali , F. Mannucci , A. Marconi , F. Belfiore , S. M. Fall

The statistical properties of dark matter halos, the building blocks of cosmological observables associated with structure in the universe, offer many opportunities to test models for cosmic acceleration, especially those that seek to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-02 Fabian Schmidt , Marcos Lima , Hiroaki Oyaizu , Wayne Hu

The nature of dark matter is one of the outstanding questions of astrophysics. The internal motions of member stars reveal that the lowest luminosity galaxies in the Local Group are the most dark-matter dominated. New large datasets allow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rosemary F. G. Wyse , Gerard Gilmore

Dynamical black holes have an apparent horizon as one of their characteristics. The later might be null, time-like, or space-like surfaces that define the evolution of a black hole. Our study examines how an apparent horizon's behavior is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-30 Vitalii Vertogradov