3:30–5:00 pm ERC 401
Title: Axions and the formation of supermassive black holes at cosmic dawn
Abstract: Axion dark matter thermalizes by gravitational self-interactions and forms a Bose-Einstein condensate. It is shown that the re-thermalization of the axion fluid during the initial collapse of large scale overdensities at cosmic dawn transports angular momentum outward sufficiently fast that black holes form with masses ranging from approximately 105 to a few times 1010 M☉.
Zoom: https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/95163709101?pwd=n2tRNMeI5Cda1rL9rVCXL7eApjQJSl.1
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