Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10700352 Astroparticle Physics 2005 13 Pages PDF
Abstract
We describe a mechanism of the primordial black holes formation that can explain the existence of a population of supermassive black holes in galactic bulges. The mechanism is based on the formation of black holes from closed domain walls. The origin of such domain walls could be a result of the evolution of an effectively massless scalar field during inflation. The initial non-equilibrium distribution of the scalar field imposed by background de Sitter fluctuations gives rise to the spectrum of black holes, which covers a wide range of masses-from superheavy ones down to deeply subsolar. The primordial black holes of smaller masses are concentrated around the most massive ones within a fractal-like cluster.
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