7–11 Jul 2025
America/Toronto timezone

Direct Collapse Supermassive Black Holes from Ultralight Dark Matter

10 Jul 2025, 13:30
20m

Speaker

Hao Jiao (McGill University)

Description

We investigate the possibility that parametric resonant excitation of photons in an ultralight dark matter halo could generate the required flux of Lyman-Werner photons to allow the direct collapse formation of supermassive black hole seeds. This scenario provides a plausible explanation for the origin of quasars observed at high redshifts.

Authors

Hao Jiao (McGill University) Robert Brandenberger (McGill University) Vahid Kamali

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