scholarly journals μ-distortion around stupendously large primordial black holes

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (11) ◽  
pp. 054
Author(s):  
Heling Deng

Abstract In a variety of mechanisms generating primordial black holes, each black hole is expected to form along with a surrounding underdense region that roughly compensates the black hole mass. This region will propagate outwards and expand as a shell at the speed of sound in the homogeneous background. Dissipation of the shell due to Silk damping could lead to detectable μ-distortion in the CMB spectrum: if black holes are rare on the last scattering surface, the signal(s) would be pointlike; whereas if there are a sufficient number of them, we could have a uniform distortion in the CMB sky. While the current bound on the average μ-distortion is |μ̅| ≲ 10-4, the standard ΛCDM model predicts |μ̅| ∼ 10-8, which could possibly be detected in future missions. It is shown in this work that the non-observation of μ̅ beyond ΛCDM can place a new upper bound on the density of supermassive primordial black holes within the mass range 106 M ☉≲ M ≲ 1015 M ☉. Furthermore, black holes with initial mass M ≳ 1012 M ☉ could leave a pointlike distortion with μ ≳10-8 at an angular scale ∼ 1° in CMB, and its non-observation would impose an even more stringent bound on the population of these stupendously large primordial black holes.

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.


2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (05) ◽  
pp. 1350022 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. DWIVEDEE ◽  
B. NAYAK ◽  
L. P. SINGH

We investigate the evolution of primordial black hole mass spectrum by including both accretion of radiation and Hawking evaporation within Brans–Dicke (BD) cosmology in radiation-, matter- and vacuum-dominated eras. We also consider the effect of evaporation of primordial black holes on the expansion dynamics of the universe. The analytic solutions describing the energy density of the black holes in equilibrium with radiation are presented. We demonstrate that these solutions act as attractors for the system ensuring stability for both linear and nonlinear situations. We show, however, that inclusion of accretion of radiation delays the onset of this equilibrium in all radiation-, matter- and vacuum-dominated eras.


2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (12) ◽  
pp. 1650064 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul H. Frampton

We investigate Primordial Black Hole (PBH) formation by which we mean black holes produced in the early Universe during radiation domination. After discussing the range of PBH mass permitted in the original mechanism of Carr and Hawking, hybrid inflation with parametric resonance is presented as an existence theorem for PBHs of arbitrary mass. As proposed in arXiv:1510.00400, PBHs with many solar masses can provide a solution to the dark matter problem in galaxies. PBHs can also explain dark matter observed in clusters and suggest a primordial origin for Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) in galactic cores.


2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (31) ◽  
pp. 1850176
Author(s):  
Paul H. Frampton

In order to avoid unacceptable [Formula: see text]-distortions inconsistent with observational data on the Cosmic Microwave Background, Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) must be less massive than [Formula: see text], quite closely above the highest black hole mass yet observed. This comparableness leads us to posit that all supermassive black holes originate as PBHs.


2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S356) ◽  
pp. 143-143
Author(s):  
Jaya Maithil ◽  
Michael S. Brotherton ◽  
Bin Luo ◽  
Ohad Shemmer ◽  
Sarah C. Gallagher ◽  
...  

AbstractActive Galactic Nuclei (AGN) exhibit multi-wavelength properties that are representative of the underlying physical processes taking place in the vicinity of the accreting supermassive black hole. The black hole mass and the accretion rate are fundamental for understanding the growth of black holes, their evolution, and the impact on the host galaxies. Recent results on reverberation-mapped AGNs show that the highest accretion rate objects have systematic shorter time-lags. These super-Eddington accreting massive black holes (SEAMBHs) show BLR size 3-8 times smaller than predicted by the Radius-Luminosity (R-L) relationship. Hence, the single-epoch virial black hole mass estimates of highly accreting AGNs have an overestimation of a factor of 3-8 times. SEAMBHs likely have a slim accretion disk rather than a thin disk that is diagnostic in X-ray. I will present the extreme X-ray properties of a sample of dozen of SEAMBHs. They indeed have a steep hard X-ray photon index, Γ, and demonstrate a steeper power-law slope, ασx.


Physics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 372-378
Author(s):  
Viktor D. Stasenko ◽  
Alexander A. Kirillov

In this paper, the merger rate of black holes in a cluster of primordial black holes (PBHs) is investigated. The clusters have characteristics close to those of typical globular star clusters. A cluster that has a wide mass spectrum ranging from 10−2 to 10M⊙ (Solar mass) and contains a massive central black hole of the mass M•=103M⊙ is considered. It is shown that in the process of the evolution of cluster, the merger rate changed significantly, and by now, the PBH clusters have passed the stage of active merging of the black holes inside them.


Author(s):  
Benjamin L. Davis ◽  
Alister W. Graham

Abstract Recent X-ray observations by Jiang et al. have identified an active galactic nucleus (AGN) in the bulgeless spiral galaxy NGC 3319, located just $14.3\pm 1.1$ Mpc away, and suggest the presence of an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH; $10^2\leq M_\bullet/\textrm{M}_{\odot}\leq 10^5$ ) if the Eddington ratios are as high as 3 to $3\times10^{-3}$ . In an effort to refine the black hole mass for this (currently) rare class of object, we have explored multiple black hole mass scaling relations, such as those involving the (not previously used) velocity dispersion, logarithmic spiral arm pitch angle, total galaxy stellar mass, nuclear star cluster mass, rotational velocity, and colour of NGC 3319, to obtain 10 mass estimates, of differing accuracy. We have calculated a mass of $3.14_{-2.20}^{+7.02}\times10^4\,\textrm{M}_\odot$ , with a confidence of 84% that it is $\leq $ $10^5\,\textrm{M}_\odot$ , based on the combined probability density function from seven of these individual estimates. Our conservative approach excluded two black hole mass estimates (via the nuclear star cluster mass and the fundamental plane of black hole activity—which only applies to black holes with low accretion rates) that were upper limits of ${\sim}10^5\,{\textrm M}_{\odot}$ , and it did not use the $M_\bullet$ – $L_{\textrm 2-10\,\textrm{keV}}$ relation’s prediction of $\sim$ $10^5\,{\textrm M}_{\odot}$ . This target provides an exceptional opportunity to study an IMBH in AGN mode and advance our demographic knowledge of black holes. Furthermore, we introduce our novel method of meta-analysis as a beneficial technique for identifying new IMBH candidates by quantifying the probability that a galaxy possesses an IMBH.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui feng Zheng ◽  
Jia ming Shi ◽  
Taotao Qiu

Abstract It is well known that primordial black hole (PBH) can be generated in inflation process of the early universe, especially when the inflaton field has some non-trivial features that could break the slow-roll condition. In this paper, we investigate a toy model of inflation with bumpy potential, which has one or several bumps. We found that potential with multi-bump can give rise to power spectra with multi peaks in small-scale region, which can in turn predict the generation of primordial black holes in various mass ranges. We also consider the two possibilities of PBH formation by spherical collapse and elliptical collapse. And discusses the scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) generated by the second-order scalar perturbations.


2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Xu ◽  
Yen Chin Ong

Abstract Hořava–Lifshitz (HL) gravity was formulated in hope of solving the non-renormalization problem in Einstein gravity and the ghost problem in higher derivative gravity theories by violating Lorentz invariance. In this work we consider the spherically symmetric neutral AdS black hole evaporation process in HL gravity in various spacetime dimensions d, and with detailed balance violation parameter $$0\leqslant \epsilon ^2\leqslant 1$$0⩽ϵ2⩽1. We find that the lifetime of the black holes under Hawking evaporation is dimensional dependent, with $$d=4,5$$d=4,5 behave differently from $$d\geqslant 6$$d⩾6. For the case of $$\epsilon =0$$ϵ=0, in $$d=4,5$$d=4,5, the black hole admits zero temperature state, and the lifetime of the black hole is always infinite. This phenomenon obeys the third law of black hole thermodynamics, and implies that the black holes become an effective remnant towards the end of the evaporation. As $$d\geqslant 6$$d⩾6, however, the lifetime of black hole does not diverge with any initial black hole mass, and it is bounded by a time of the order of $$\ell ^{d-1}$$ℓd-1, similar to the case of Schwarzschild-AdS in Einstein gravity (which corresponds to $$\epsilon ^2=1$$ϵ2=1), though for the latter this holds for all $$d\geqslant 4$$d⩾4. The case of $$0<\epsilon ^2<1$$0<ϵ2<1 is also qualitatively similar with $$\epsilon =0$$ϵ=0.


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