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Black Holes from Fermi Ball Collapse
Yifan Lu, Zachary S. C. Picker, Stefano Profumo +1
Fermi balls are non-topological solitons that can naturally form in an early universe containing a dark sector with heavy fermions and an attractive interaction mediated by a light…
astro-ph.GA2024★ 18 cited
Direct-collapse supermassive black holes from relic particle decay
Yifan Lu, Zachary S. C. Picker, Alexander Kusenko
We investigate the formation of high-redshift supermassive black holes (SMBHs) via the direct collapse of baryonic clouds, where the unwanted formation of molecular hydrogen is suc…