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The cosmic reionization era, which includes formation of the first stars, galaxies, and AGN, is now one of the most active frontiers of cosmological research. We review briefly our current understanding of the early structure formation, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 S. G. Djorgovski

The existence of $\approx$10^9 Msun supermassive black holes (SMBHs) within the first billion year of the universe has stimulated numerous ideas for the prompt formation and rapid growth of BHs in the early universe. Here we review ways in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-11 Kohei Inayoshi , Eli Visbal , Zoltán Haiman

The distribution of black hole masses in galaxies is constrained by photometric and kinematic studies of individual galaxies, and by the properties of the quasar population. I review our understanding of these topics, present new results of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roeland P. van der Marel

We study the formation of massive black holes in the first star clusters. We first locate star-forming gas clouds in proto-galactic haloes of $\gtrsim \!10^7\,{\rm M}_{\odot}$ in cosmological hydrodynamics simulations and use them to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-15 Yuya Sakurai , Naoki Yoshida , Michiko S. Fujii , Shingo Hirano

The Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are gradually involved into consideration as the phenomenon having reliable basis. We discuss here the possibility of their agglomeration into clusters that may have several prominent observable features.…

Because of the very definition of black holes --- no light escapes them and falling objects get infinitely faint when approaching --- it is impossible to ever prove that they exist. However, electromagnetic and gravitational-wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-17 Vitor Cardoso

One of the most promising explanations for the origin of the billion solar mass black holes (BHs) inferred to power quasars at redshifts z > 6 is that supermassive stars (SMSs) with masses > 10,000 solar masses collapse to form the seed BHs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jarrett L. Johnson , Bhaskar Agarwal , Daniel J. Whalen , Claudio Dalla Vecchia , Christopher L. Fryer , Sadegh Khochfar , Hui Li , Mario Livio

Black holes with hundreds to thousands of solar masses are more massive than can be formed from a single star in the current universe, yet the best candidates for these objects are not located in gas-rich environments where gradual…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Coleman Miller

High energy collisions of particles may have created tiny black holes in the early Universe, which might leave stable remnants instead of fully evaporating as a result of Hawking radiation. If the reheating temperature was sufficiently…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-03 Tomohiro Nakama , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Primordial black holes may form in the early Universe, for example from the collapse of large amplitude density perturbations predicted in some inflationary models. Light black holes undergo Hawking evaporation, the energy injection from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrew R Liddle , Anne M Green

We investigate the hypothesis that quasars formed together with the stellar populations of early-type galaxies. This hypothesis, in conjunction with the stellar ages of early-type galaxies from population synthesis models, the relation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Cattaneo , M. Bernardi

We suggest that high-mass black holes; i.e., black holes of several solar masses, can be formed in binaries with low-mass main-sequence companions, provided that the hydrogen envelope of the massive star is removed in common envelope…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. E. Brown , C. -H. Lee , H. A. Bethe

We consider a scenario where supermassive black holes form through direct accumulation of gas at the centre of proto-galaxies. In the first stage, the accumulated gas forms a super-massive star whose core collapses when the nuclear fuel is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Calanit Dotan , Elena M. Rossi , Nir J. Shaviv

We consider the physical conditions under which supermassive black holes could have formed inside the first galaxies. Our SPH simulations indicate that metal-free galaxies with a virial temperature ~10^4 K and with suppressed H2 formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Volker Bromm , Abraham Loeb

Binary black holes as the recently detected sources of gravitational waves can be formed from massive stellar binaries in the field or by dynamical interactions in clusters of high stellar density, if the black holes are the remnants of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 I. F. Mirabel

How quasars powered by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) formed less than a billion years after the Big Bang is still one of the outstanding problems in astrophysics 20 years after their discovery$^{1-4}$. Cosmological simulations suggest…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-13 Muhammad A. Latif , Daniel J. Whalen , Sadegh Khochfar , Nicholas P. Herrington , Tyrone E. Woods

Real black holes in the universe are located in the expanding accelerating background which are called the cosmological black holes. Hence, it is necessary to model these black holes in the cosmological background where the dark energy is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-13 Javad T. Firouzjaee , Touhid Feghhi

In this white paper we explore the capabilities required to identify and study supermassive black holes formed from heavy seeds ($\mathrm{M_{\bullet}} \sim 10^4 - 10^6 \, \mathrm{M_{\odot}}$) in the early Universe. To obtain an unequivocal…

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a profound signature of primordial cosmological structures and provide a theoretical tool to study nontrivial physics of the early Universe. The mechanisms of PBH formation are discussed and observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 M. Yu. Khlopov

We propose a model in which intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) with mass of ~10000 Msun are formed in early dark matter halos. We carry out detailed stellar evolution calculations for accreting primordial stars including annihilation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Hideyuki Umeda , Naoki Yoshida , Ken Nomoto , Sachiko Tsuruta , Mei Sasaki , Takuya Ohkubo