Dark matter properties. Left panel: DM density profile from the reference model (solid black line) with 1σ and 3σ confidence intervals (gray bands). The green and orange lines, together with the colored bands, show DM density profiles from R19 and H20, respectively, together with their 1σ confidence intervals. The dashed blue line is the median model obtained by fitting only the l.o.s. velocity dispersion profile in Section 2.1, with models 2.2. The vertical black line indicates the upper limit on the influence radius of the BH in Leo I (r_infl < 20 pc; P24), and the other vertical lines mark 150 pc and the effective radius R_eff = 272 pc (McConnachie 2012). The small panel at the top shows the corresponding logarithmic slope γ ≡ d In ρ_DM/d In r. Right panel: Same as the left panel, but showing the enclosed DM mass profile. The red line indicates the median stellar mass with the 1σ and 3σ uncertainties with a red band. The inset in the left panel shows the posterior distribution on γ₁₅₀. The inset in the right panel shows a compilation of ρ₁₅₀ (with 1σ error bars) values from various studies: R19 and H20 (color-coded as in the main panels), Andrade et al. (2024, An24) in blue, and Kaplinghat et al. (2019) for both NFW (K19NFW) and cored (K19Core) DM models in red and purple, respectively. Kaplinghat et al. (2019) and Andrade et al. (2024) provided the values of ρ₁₅₀, but no density profiles.