{"id":126249,"date":"2021-08-15T17:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T00:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/the-bonkers-connection-between-massive-black-holes-and-dark-matter"},"modified":"2021-08-15T17:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T00:22:18","slug":"the-bonkers-connection-between-massive-black-holes-and-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/the-bonkers-connection-between-massive-black-holes-and-dark-matter","title":{"rendered":"The bonkers connection between massive black holes and dark matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D4flq2dryOc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But a team of physicists is proposing a radical idea: Instead of forming black holes through the usual death-of-a-massive-start route, giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/virtual-halos-of-dark-matter\">dark matter halos<\/a> directly collapsed, forming the seeds of the first great black holes.<\/p>\n<p>Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) appear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/146397\/supermassive-black-holes-grew-by-consuming-gas-and-entire-stars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">early in the history of the universe<\/a>, as little as a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. That rapid appearance poses a challenge to conventional models of SMBH birth and growth because it doesn\u2019t look like there can be enough time for them to grow so massive so quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhysicists are puzzled why SMBHs in the early universe, which are located in the central regions of dark matter halos, grow so massively in a short time,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.ucr.edu\/app\/home\/profile\/haiboyu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Hai-Bo Yu<\/a>, an associate professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.ucr.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">physics and astronomy<\/a> at UC Riverside, who led a <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/2041-8213\/ac04b0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">study<\/a> of SMBH formation that appeared in <em>Astrophysical Journal Letters<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But a team of physicists is proposing a radical idea: Instead of forming black holes through the usual death-of-a-massive-start route, giant dark matter halos directly collapsed, forming the seeds of the first great black holes. Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) appear early in the history of the universe, as little as a few hundred million years [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}