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arXiv:2503.19414·v2·Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Direct Collapse Supermassive Black Holes from Ultralight Dark Matter

Hao Jiao🇨🇦 · Robert Brandenberger🇨🇦 · Vahid Kamali🇨🇦

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Abstract

We study 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.

Comments: 12 pages, 8 figures

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