Ruling out initially clustered primordial black holes as dark matter

V De Luca, G Franciolini, A Riotto, H Veermäe - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Combining constraints from microlensing and Lyman-α forest, we provide a simple argument
to show that large spatial clustering of stellar-mass primordial black holes at the time of …

Origin of supermassive black holes in massive metal-poor protoclusters

DRG Schleicher, B Reinoso, M Latif… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
While large numbers of supermassive black holes have been detected at z> 6, their origin is
still essentially unclear. Numerical simulations have shown that the conditions for the …

Bridging the bondi and event horizon scales: 3d grmhd simulations reveal x-shaped radio galaxy morphology

A Lalakos, O Gottlieb, N Kaaz… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
X-shaped radio galaxies (XRGs) produce misaligned X-shaped jet pairs and make up≲ 10%
of radio galaxies. XRGs are thought to emerge in galaxies featuring a binary supermassive …

Small-scale structure of primordial black hole dark matter and its implications for accretion

G Hütsi, M Raidal, H Veermäe - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
Primordial black hole (PBH) dark matter (DM) nonlinear small-scale structure formation
begins before the epoch of recombination, due to large Poisson density fluctuations. Those …

Making a supermassive star by stellar bombardment

H Tagawa, Z Haiman, B Kocsis - The Astrophysical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Approximately 200 supermassive black holes (SMBHs) have been discovered within the
first∼ gigayear after the Big Bang. One pathway for the formation of SMBHs is through the …

Formation of second-generation stars in globular clusters

F Calura, A D'Ercole, E Vesperini… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
By means of grid-based, 3D hydrodynamical simulations we study the formation of second-
generation (SG) stars in a young globular cluster (GC) of mass 107 M⊙, the possible …

Formation of supermassive black hole seeds in nuclear star clusters via gas accretion and runaway collisions

A Das, DRG Schleicher, NWC Leigh… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
More than 200 supermassive black holes (SMBHs) of masses have been discovered at z≳
6. One promising pathway for the formation of SMBHs is through the collapse of …

The Evolution of Binaries in a Gaseous Medium: Three-dimensional Simulations of Binary Bondi–Hoyle–Lyttleton Accretion

A Antoni, M MacLeod… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Binary stars are common. While only those with small separations may exchange gas with
one another, even the widest binaries interact with their gaseous surroundings. Drag forces …

Three-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics simulations of wandering intermediate-mass black holes considering the anisotropic radiation and dust sublimation

E Ogata, K Ohsuga, H Fukushima… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
By performing three-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics simulations, we study Bondi–
Hoyle–Lyttleton accretion on to intermediate-mass black holes (BHs) wandering in the dusty …

The hydrodynamic evolution of binary black holes embedded within the vertically stratified disks of active galactic nuclei

N Kaaz, SL Schrøder, JJ Andrews… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Stellar-mass black holes can become embedded within the disks of active galactic nuclei
(AGNs). Afterwards, their interactions are mediated by their gaseous surroundings. Here, we …