Supermassive Primordial Black Holes for Nano-Hertz Gravitational Waves and High-redshift JWST Galaxies
- 22 August 2024
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Vol. 24 (9) , 091001
Abstract
Recently, observational hints for supermassive black holes have been accumulating, prompting the question: Can primordial black holes (PBHs) be supermassive, particularly with masses M ≳ 109 M ⊙? A supercritical bubble, containing an inflating baby universe, that nucleated during inflation can evolve into a PBH in our observable universe. We find that when the inflaton slowly transitions past a neighboring vacuum, the nucleation rate of supercritical bubbles inevitably peaks, leading to a mass distribution of multiverse PBHs with a peak mass up to M ≳ 1011 M ⊙. Thus, our mechanism naturally provides a primordial origin for supermassive black holes.Keywords
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