The first massive black holes
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2015-06-11 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract
I briefly outline recent theoretical developments on the formation of the first massive black holes (MBHs) that may grow into the population of MBHs powering quasars and inhabiting galactic centers today. I also touch upon possible observational tests that may give insights on what the properties of the first MBHs were.
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@article{arxiv.1209.1195,
title = {The first massive black holes},
author = {Marta Volonteri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.1195},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Very short review to appear in the proceedings of "First Stars IV", held in Kyoto, Japan, May 2012