Seeding Supermassive Black Holes with Self-Interacting Dark Matter: A Unified Scenario with Baryons

Wei-Xiang Feng, Hai-Bo Yu, Yi-Ming Zhong

Observations show that supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with a mass of $\sim 10^9{M}_{\odot }$ exist when the Universe is just $6\%$ of its current age. We propose a scenario where a se…