2 papers
astro-ph.GA2026
Little Red Dots from Ultra-Strongly Self-Interacting Dark Matter
M. Grant Roberts, Lila Braff, Aarna Garg +2
We investigate the possibility that the recently identified population of high-redshift, obscured quasars - known as "Little Red Dots" (LRDs) - originates from early black hole see…
astro-ph.GA2025
Early formation of supermassive black holes from the collapse of strongly self-interacting dark matter
M. Grant Roberts, Lila Braff, Aarna Garg +3
Evidence for high-redshift supermassive black holes challenges standard scenarios for how such objects form in the early universe. Here, we entertain the possibility that a fractio…