WIMP annihilation heating above roughly 5e14 GeV/cm3 can keep primordial protostars cool and inflated, letting them grow past 1e5 solar masses and form heavy black hole seeds.
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The Evolution of Pop III.1 Protostars Powered by Dark Matter Annihilation. I. Fiducial model and first results
WIMP annihilation heating above roughly 5e14 GeV/cm3 can keep primordial protostars cool and inflated, letting them grow past 1e5 solar masses and form heavy black hole seeds.