Massive and supermassive black holes in the contemporary and early Universe and problems in cosmology and astrophysics

A.D. Dolgov^{a, b, c, d}
^aRussian Federation State Scientific Center ‘A.I. Alikhanov Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics’, ul. Bolshaya Cheremushkinskaya 25, Moscow, 117259, Russian Federation
^bNovosibirsk State University, ul. Pirogova 2, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation
^cDipartimento di Fisica e Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Ferrara Polo Scientifico e Tecnologico — Edificio C, Via Saragat 1, Ferrara, 44122, Italy
^dIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Ferrara Polo Scientifico e Tecnologico — Edificio C, Via Saragat 1, Ferrara, 44122, Italy

This review concerns recent astronomical data showing that the role of massive primordial black holes in the Universe is much more significant than previously thought, both for the present Universe and for redshifts of order 10. The 1993-proposed model accounting for the primordial creation of heavy and superheavy black holes with a log-normal mass spectrum is discussed, which explains in a natural way some facts about the Universe that are unaccounted for in standard cosmology and astrophysics.

Keywords: black holes, massive and supermassive black holes, gravitational waves, globular clusters, formation of galaxies, the Universe at redshifts about 10
PACS: 04.70.−s, 98.62.Ai, 98.80.−k (all)
DOI: 10.3367/UFNe.2017.06.038153
URL: https://ufn.ru/en/articles/2018/2/a/
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Citation: Dolgov A D "Massive and supermassive black holes in the contemporary and early Universe and problems in cosmology and astrophysics" Phys. Usp. 61 115–132 (2018)

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Received: 25th, May 2017, accepted: 21st, June 2017

Оригинал: Долгов А Д «Массивные и сверхмассивные чёрные дыры в современной и ранней Вселенной и проблемы космологии и астрофизики» УФН 188 121–142 (2018); DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.2017.06.038153