Dark and Luminous Matter Interactions with Supermassive Black Holes
Monday 12 April, 2:30 pm, Curia II
David Merritt (Rutgers Univ.)
@: merritt AT physics.rutgers.edu

Annihilation radiation may have been detected from particle dark matter
at the galactic center.  To interpret this signal, it is important to
understand theoretically what the dark matter distribution is likely
to be, and how it evolves with time. Interactions of dark matter
particles with supermassive- and stellar-mass black holes, and with
stars, are likely to lead to substantial re-distribution of dark
matter near the centers of galaxies over a Hubble time, on scales of
tens or even hundreds of parsecs.