Under the guide of Professor Stefano Profumo, graduate student Grant Roberts and undergraduates Lila Braff, Aarna Garg, and Jackson O’Donnell have published a new study titled “Early formation of supermassive black holes from the collapse of strongly self-interacting dark matter.”

The study aims to explain the presence of high-redshift supermassive black holes in the early universe, which defy our current expectations of how such phenomena are produced. By considering the possibility that some portion of cosmological dark matter could be strongly self-interacting, the authors study how different characteristics of this self-interacting dark matter can create the ideal environment to produce these observed early-forming supermassive black holes.

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