Over to the Dark Side: Dark Matter, Black Holes, and the Origin of the Universe

2014 ◽  
pp. 326-353
Author(s):  
William Sheehan ◽  
Christopher J. Conselice
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-110
Author(s):  
Nabil Nabil

Science in human life is very important to illuminate every walk of life, both physical (material) and metaphysical (immaterial). The universe was born millions and even billions of years ago, so many astronomical physicists calculate the origin of the universe, so the creation of the theory of bigbang, black holes, dark energy, dark matter, newton gravity, etc. Astronomy is important in teaching to know the phenomena of the universe (general), and to know times of worship (specifically). Before entering the science, it is better to know the history of astronomy, both the history of theory, and the figures then the hierarchy between geocentric and heliocentric in several views, both from the view of a character, as well as the view of the scriptures. Indeed, when humans think about the universe, in this case about the center of the universe there will be a hierarchy with the scriptures. This is a matter between different reason and revelation. Therefore, in this paper I touch on the issue of Heliocentric and Geocentric. And do not forget the astronomical figures from the West and East.


Author(s):  
Gianfranco Bertone

The spectacular advances of modern astronomy have opened our horizon on an unexpected cosmos: a dark, mysterious Universe, populated by enigmatic entities we know very little about, like black holes, or nothing at all, like dark matter and dark energy. In this book, I discuss how the rise of a new discipline dubbed multimessenger astronomy is bringing about a revolution in our understanding of the cosmos, by combining the traditional approach based on the observation of light from celestial objects, with a new one based on other ‘messengers’—such as gravitational waves, neutrinos, and cosmic rays—that carry information from otherwise inaccessible corners of the Universe. Much has been written about the extraordinary potential of this new discipline, since the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for the direct detection of gravitational waves. But here I will take a different angle and explore how gravitational waves and other messengers might help us break the stalemate that has been plaguing fundamental physics for four decades, and to consolidate the foundations of modern cosmology.


2020 ◽  
Vol 501 (1) ◽  
pp. 1426-1439
Author(s):  
Bernard Carr ◽  
Sebastien Clesse ◽  
Juan García-Bellido

ABSTRACT If primordial black holes (PBHs) formed at the quark-hadron epoch, their mass must be close to the Chandrasekhar limit, this also being the characteristic mass of stars. If they provide the dark matter (DM), the collapse fraction must be of order the cosmological baryon-to-photon ratio ∼10−9, which suggests a scenario in which a baryon asymmetry is produced efficiently in the outgoing shock around each PBH and then propagates to the rest of the Universe. We suggest that the temperature increase in the shock provides the ingredients for hotspot electroweak baryogenesis. This also explains why baryons and DM have comparable densities, the precise ratio depending on the size of the PBH relative to the cosmological horizon at formation. The observed value of the collapse fraction and baryon asymmetry depends on the amplitude of the curvature fluctuations that generate the PBHs and may be explained by an anthropic selection effect associated with the existence of galaxies. We propose a scenario in which the quantum fluctuations of a light stochastic spectator field during inflation generate large curvature fluctuations in some regions, with the stochasticity of this field providing the basis for the required selection. Finally, we identify several observational predictions of our scenario that should be testable within the next few years. In particular, the PBH mass function could extend to sufficiently high masses to explain the black hole coalescences observed by LIGO/Virgo.


2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (S255) ◽  
pp. 56-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Freese ◽  
Douglas Spolyar ◽  
Anthony Aguirre ◽  
Peter Bodenheimer ◽  
Paolo Gondolo ◽  
...  

AbstractThe first phase of stellar evolution in the history of the universe may be Dark Stars, powered by dark matter heating rather than by fusion. Weakly interacting massive particles, which are their own antiparticles, can annihilate and provide an important heat source for the first stars in the the universe. This talk presents the story of these Dark Stars. We make predictions that the first stars are very massive (~800M⊙), cool (6000 K), bright (~106L⊙), long-lived (~106years), and probable precursors to (otherwise unexplained) supermassive black holes. Later, once the initial DM fuel runs out and fusion sets in, DM annihilation can predominate again if the scattering cross section is strong enough, so that a Dark Star is born again.


2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (04) ◽  
pp. 657-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
PIERRE BINÉTRUY

I discuss here some of the deeper connections between the physics studied at the LHC (electroweak phase transition, physics beyond the Standard Model, extra dimensions) and some of the most important issues in the field of particle astrophysics and cosmology (dark matter, primordial gravitational waves, black holes,…).


1988 ◽  
Vol 66 (11) ◽  
pp. 1031-1034
Author(s):  
A Das ◽  
Daniel Kay

Within the framework of Einstein's theory, cosmological universes are considered that contain three types of "fluids." A neutral cosmological fluid (dark matter), which is present everywhere, determines the overall time evolution of the universe. The second type consists of charged matter that constitutes the cores of galaxies. The electromagnetic fields generated by the charged matter make up the third kind of fluid, which is evidently null. An exact cosmological solution is furnished that provides for an early inflationary period and contains many charged black holes as galactic cores.


2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (13) ◽  
pp. 1545005 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. M. Belotsky ◽  
A. A. Kirillov ◽  
S. G. Rubin

Here, we briefly discuss the possibility to solve simultaneously with primordial black holes (PBHs) the problems of dark matter (DM), reionization of the universe, origin of positron line from Galactic center and supermassive black hole (BH) in it. Discussed scenario can naturally lead to a multiple-peak broad-mass-range distribution of PBHs in mass, which is necessary for simultaneous solution of the problems.


2018 ◽  
Vol 09 (05) ◽  
pp. 832-850
Author(s):  
T. R. Mongan

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (12) ◽  
pp. 1544025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduard G. Mychelkin ◽  
Maxim A. Makukov

Starting with geometrical premises, we infer the existence of fundamental cosmological scalar fields. We then consider physically relevant situations in which spacetime metric is induced by one or, in general, by two scalar fields, in accord with the Papapetrou algorithm. The first of these fields, identified with dark energy (DE), has exceedingly small but finite (subquantum) Hubble mass scale ([Formula: see text] eV), and might be represented as a neutral superposition of quasi-static electric fields. The second field is identified with dark matter (DM) as an effectively scalar conglomerate composed of primordial neutrinos and antineutrinos in a special tachyonic state.


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