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20242026
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11 papers

gr-qc2026

Determining Kerr black hole spin and inclination from a segment of the critical curve in black hole images

Kenta Hioki, Umpei Miyamoto, Tomohiro Harada

We present a method for determining the spin parameter and inclination angle of a non-extremal Kerr black hole from segments of the critical curve identified in black hol…

gr-qc2026

COSMOS: A numerical relativity code specialized for PBH formation

Chul-Moon Yoo, Hirotada Okawa, Albert Escrivà +7

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are black holes generated in the early universe without having gone through stellar evolution. In the standard formation process, PBHs are formed from…

gr-qc2026

Supermassive black hole seeds from direct collapse of CDM-curvature peaks

Marco Galoppo, Marco Bruni, Tomohiro Harada

We study black hole (BH) formation from the nonlinear growth and collapse of primordial perturbations during the matter-dominated era. Modelling cold dark matter (CDM) as pressurel…

astro-ph.CO2026

Gravitational wave emission from nonspherical collapse in an early matter-dominated era using N-body simulations

Albert EscrivÃ, Tomohiro Harada, Kazunori Kohri +2

We study the dynamics of the collapse of a nonspherical overdense patch during an early matter-dominated era and the associated production of gravitational waves (GWs) using a semi…

astro-ph.CO2026

Cosmological discrete self-similarity in primordial black hole formation

Luis E. Padilla, Tomohiro Harada, Ethan Milligan +1

We demonstrate that discrete self-similarity (DSS), originally discovered in the collapse of a massless scalar field in an asymptotically flat system, survives in primordial black…

gr-qc2025

Numerical simulation of type II primordial black hole formation

Koichiro Uehara, Albert EscrivÃ, Tomohiro Harada +2

This study investigates the formation of type II primordial black holes (PBHs) resulting from extremely large amplitudes of initial fluctuations in a radiation-dominated universe.…