6–8 Jun 2022
University of Minho, Campus Gualtar, Pedagogical Complex II (CP2), Room B1
Europe/Lisbon timezone

Primordial black hole formation with full numerical relativity

8 Jun 2022, 17:05
20m
University of Minho, Campus Gualtar, Pedagogical Complex II (CP2), Room B1

University of Minho, Campus Gualtar, Pedagogical Complex II (CP2), Room B1

Contributed Talk (20 minutes)

Speaker

Eloy de Jong (King's College London)

Description

I will talk about studying the formation of black holes from subhorizon and superhorizon perturbations in a matter dominated universe with 3+1D numerical relativity simulations. We find that there are two primary mechanisms of formation depending on the initial perturbation's mass and geometry -- via direct collapse of the initial overdensity and via post-collapse accretion of the ambient dark matter. We find that the duration of the collapse process is roughly one Hubble time, that the PBH mass at formation time is around 1% of the Hubble mass and that the subsequent accretion rates are high. I will also comment on the influence of non-sphericity on the collapse.

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Author

Eloy de Jong (King's College London)

Co-authors

Eugene Lim (King's College London) Josu Aurrekoetxea (University of Oxford)

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