arXiv:2503.19414·v2·Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Direct Collapse Supermassive Black Holes from Ultralight Dark Matter
Hao Jiao🇨🇦 · Robert Brandenberger🇨🇦 · Vahid Kamali🇨🇦
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