Cosmic String Loops as the Seeds of Super-Massive Black Holes

Mar 8, 2015
8 pages
Published in:
  • JCAP 06 (2015) 007
  • Published: Jun 3, 2015
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Abstract: (IOP)
Recent discoveries of super-massive black holes at high redshifts indicate a possible tension with the standard ΛCDM paradigm of early universe cosmology which has difficulties in explaining the origin of the required nonlinear compact seeds which trigger the formation of these super-massive black holes. Here we show that cosmic string loops which result from a scaling solution of strings formed during a phase transition in the very early universe lead to an additional source of compact seeds. The number density of string-induced seeds dominates at high redshifts and can help trigger the formation of the observed super-massive black holes.
Note:
  • 8 pages, 4 figures; minor changes, references added, agrees with the published version
  • cosmic string
  • black hole: formation
  • cosmological model
  • string: scaling
  • critical phenomena
  • redshift: high