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Gravothermal Collapse of Self-Interacting Dark Matter Halos and the Origin of Massive Black Holes
Shmuel Balberg, Stuart L. Shapiro
A central supermassive black hole (SMBH) with a mass appears to be a common feature in nearby galaxies and the likely power source in quasars and active galacti…
astro-ph2001★ 231 cited
Self-Interacting Dark Matter Halos and the Gravothermal Catastrophe
Shmuel Balberg, Stuart L. Shapiro, Shogo Inagaki
We study the evolution of an isolated, spherical halo of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) in the gravothermal fluid formalism. We show that the thermal relaxation time, , o…