PIRSA:24020075

Direct Collapse Black Holes from Dark Matter Annihilation

(2024). Direct Collapse Black Holes from Dark Matter Annihilation. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/24020075

Direct Collapse Black Holes from Dark Matter Annihilation. Perimeter Institute, Feb. 27, 2024, https://pirsa.org/24020075 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:24020075,
            doi = {10.48660/24020075},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/24020075},
            author = {},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {Direct Collapse Black Holes from Dark Matter Annihilation},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2024},
            month = {feb},
            note = {PIRSA:24020075 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }
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We present a simple dark matter model where resonant annihilation can dissociate molecular hydrogen and induce direct collapse black holes in proto-galaxies. In these models, O(10 MeV) dark matter annihilates into electron-positron pairs which, in turn, inverse Compton scatter CMB light to produce a flux of Lyman-Werner radiation. This mechanism could help explain observed supermassive black holes at high redshift.