Clusteringenesis: from Light to Heavy Primordial Black Holes [CEA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14171


We show that heavy primordial black holes may originate from much lighter ones if the latter are strongly clustered at the time of their formation. While this population is subject to the usual constraints from late-time universe observations, its relation to the initial conditions is different from the standard scenario and provides a new mechanism to generate massive primordial black holes even in the absence of efficient accretion, opening new scenarios, e.g. for the generation of supermassive black holes.

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V. Luca, G. Franciolini and A. Riotto
Wed, 26 Oct 22
45/73

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures