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Our understanding of space and time is probed to its depths by black holes. These objects, which appear as a natural consequence of general relativity, provide a powerful analytical tool able to examine macroscopic and microscopic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Jean-Pierre Luminet

Some indication of conditions that are necessary for the formation of black holes from the collision of bubbles during a supercooled phase transition in the the early universe are explored. Two colliding bubbles can never form a black hole.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Ian G. Moss

We investigate the coupled formation and evolution of galaxies and their embedded supermassive black holes using state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations of cosmological structure formation. For the first time, we self-consistently follow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tiziana Di Matteo , Joerg Colberg , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist , Debora Sijacki

It is shown that an exactly static and spherically symmetric black hole event horizon cannot be embedded in a time-dependent geometry. Forcing it to do so results in a naked null singularity at the would-be horizon. Therefore, since the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-25 Valerio Faraoni , Massimiliano Rinaldi

In this paper charged black holes are obtained assuming that a Born-Infeld electrodynamics may arise from an interaction between the electromagnetic field and a vacuum component. In this context Cauchy horizons do not appear in the maximal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-30 Rodrigo Maier , Manuella Corrêa e Silva

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a profound signature of primordial cosmological structures and provide a theoretical tool to study nontrivial physics of the early Universe. The mechanisms of PBH formation are discussed and observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 M. Yu. Khlopov

Cosmic voids - the low density regions in the Universe - as characteristic features of the large scale matter distribution, are known for their hyperbolic properties. The latter implies the deviation of photon beams due to their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-03 M. Samsonyan , A. A. Kocharyan , A. Stepanian , V. G. Gurzadyan

The origin and evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in our universe have sparked controversy. In this study, we explore the hypothesis that some of these black holes may have seeded from the direct collapse of dark energy domains…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-03 Arkady A. Popov , Sergey G. Rubin , Alexander S. Sakharov

There is controversy surrounding the origin and evolution of our universe's largest supermassive black holes (SMBHs). In this study, we consider the possibility that some of these black holes formed from the direct collapse of primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-21 Dan Hooper , Aurora Ireland , Gordan Krnjaic , Albert Stebbins

This study examines the gravitational and thermodynamic properties of static, spherically symmetric black holes within cosmic voids -- vast underdense regions of the universe. By deriving a novel solution based on a universal density…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 Francisco Bento Lustosa , Milko Estrada , Marcony S. Cunha , Celio R. Muniz

We propose a new mechanism for the formation of seeds of supermassive black holes at early cosmic epochs. Enhanced density fluctuations with amplitudes that are not large enough to form primordial black holes post-inflation can still lead…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-26 Wenzer Qin , Soubhik Kumar , Priyamvada Natarajan , Neal Weiner

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are common in local galactic nuclei, and SMBHs as massive as several billion solar masses already exist at redshift z=6. These earliest SMBHs may grow by the combination of radiation-pressure-limited…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Zoltán Haiman

Most of the galaxies harbor supermassive Black Holes (SMBH) in their center. Some of them are observed in very high redshifts. We explore the possibility that SMBH form from the coherent waves of Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) which are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-08 M. Morikawa , S. Takahashi

There are several puzzling phenomena from recent JWST observations, which seem to push the standard {\Lambda}CDM cosmology over the edge. All those puzzles can be understood in a coherent way if we assume that first massive black holes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-14 Xiaobo Dong , Yongda Zhu , Marcia Rieke , George Rieke , Xinyu Li , Peter Behroozi , Haixia Ma , Runyu Meng , Zhiying Mao , Zhe Sun

In this work, we investigate the generation of primordial black holes (PBHs) within the framework of single-field inflationary models and their compatibility with the cosmological history of the Universe. Our results suggest that, depending…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-30 Sasha Allegrini , Loris Del Grosso , Antonio J. Iovino , Alfredo Urbano

We study the formation and evolution of voids in the dark matter distribution using various simulations of the popular $\Lambda$ Cold Dark Matter cosmogony. We identify voids by requiring them to be regions of space with a mean overdensity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joerg M. Colberg , Ravi K. Sheth , Antonaldo Diaferio , Liang Gao , Naoki Yoshida

Sufficiently large scalar perturbations in the early Universe can create over-dense regions that collapse into primordial black holes (PBH). This process is accompanied by the emission of scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGW) that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-06 Junsong Cang , Yin-Zhe Ma , Yu Gao

In this chapter I focus on asking and answering the following questions: (1) What is a black hole? Answer: There are three types of black holes, namely mathematical black holes, physical black holes and astrophysical black holes. An…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-19 Shuang-Nan Zhang

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are of fundamental interest in cosmology and astrophysics, and have received much attention as a dark matter candidate and as a potential source of gravitational waves. One possible PBH formation mechanism is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-13 Alexander C. Jenkins , Mairi Sakellariadou

The formation of the first massive objects in the infant Universe remains impossible to observe directly and yet it sets the stage for the subsequent evolution of galaxies. While some black holes with masses > billion solar masses? have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Ezequiel Treister , Kevin Schawinski , Marta Volonteri , Priyamvada Natarajan , Eric Gawiser