2 papers
astro-ph.CO2025
Not-quite-primordial black holes
Wenzer Qin, Soubhik Kumar, Priyamvada Natarajan +1
We propose a new mechanism for the formation of seeds of supermassive black holes at early cosmic epochs. Enhanced density fluctuations with amplitudes that are not large enough to…
astro-ph.CO2024
Illuminating the Cosmos: Dark matter, primordial black holes, and cosmic dawn
Wenzer Qin
The -CDM model of cosmology has done much to clarify our picture of the early universe. However, there are still some questions that -CDM does not necessarily answer; quest…