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We use the Delphi semi-analytic model to study the mass assembly and properties of high-redshift ($z>4$) black holes over a wide mass range, $10^3 < M_{bh}/M_\odot < 10^{10}$. Our black hole growth implementation includes a critical halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-04 Olmo Piana , Pratika Dayal , Marta Volonteri , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

We have analyzed the evolution of mass of a stationary black hole in the standard FRW cosmological model. The evolution is determined specifically about the time of transition from the earlier matter to the later exotic dark energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Mubasher Jamil

Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope of the Universe at $z\gtrsim 4$ have shown that massive black holes (MBHs) appear extremely overmassive compared to the local correlation for active galactic nuclei. In some cases, these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-11 Alessandro Lupi , Alessandro Trinca , Marta Volonteri , Massimo Dotti , Chiara Mazzucchelli

The collapse of baryons into extremely massive stars with masses exceeding 10^4 M_Sun in a small fraction of protogalaxies at z > 10 is a promising candidate for the origin of supermassive black holes, some of which grow to a billion solar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Jarrett L. Johnson , Daniel J. Whalen , Christopher L. Fryer , Hui Li

The presence of massive black holes (BHs) exceeding $10^9\,{\rm M}_{\odot}$ already at redshift $z > 6$ challenges standard models of BH growth. Super-Eddington (SE) accretion has emerged as a promising mechanism to solve this issue, yet…

We present a numerical relativity study of the accretion properties of a non-spinning black hole in a cosmology driven by a scalar field. The simulations are carried out with a modified moving-puncture gauge condition suitable for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-30 Jake Doherty , Miguel Gracia-Linares , Pablo Laguna

Using a new large-scale (~ 0.75 Gpc)^3 hydrodynamic cosmological simulation we investigate the growth rate of supermassive black holes in the early universe (z > 4.75). Remarkably, we find a clear peak in the typical Eddington ratio at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Colin DeGraf , Tiziana Di Matteo , Nishikanta Khandai , Rupert Croft

The nature of the seeds of the observed high-z super-massive black holes (SMBH) is unknown. Although different options have been proposed, involving e.g. intermediate mass direct collapse black holes, BH remnants of massive stars remain the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-26 Maria Carmela Orofino , Andrea Ferrara , Simona Gallerani

We obtain the accretion, evaporation and superradiance phase diagram of astrophysical and primordial black holes in the mass range $10^{-33}-10^{11} \, M_\odot $. This black hole mass range corresponds to production of $10^{-21} - 10^{21}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-02 Caner Unal

The discovery of quasars and their supermassive black holes (SMBHs) over $10^{9} M_{\odot}$ merely hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang generates tension with the idea of Eddington-limited accretion and pressures the community…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-14 Jackson Frangos , Erick Rosen , Michael Williams , Chandra B. Singh , David Garofalo

The largest observed supermassive black holes (SMBHs) have a mass of M_BH ~ 10^{10} M_sun, nearly independent of redshift, from the local (z~0) to the early (z>6) Universe. We suggest that the growth of SMBHs above a few 10^{10} M_sun is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Kohei Inayoshi , Zoltan Haiman

Understanding how seed black holes grow into intermediate and supermassive black holes (IMBHs and SMBHs, respectively) has important implications for the duty-cycle of active galactic nuclei (AGN), galaxy evolution, and gravitational wave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Miroslav Micic , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Steinn Sigurdsson , Tom Abel

We present the accretion of collisional dark matter on a supermassive black hole seed. The analysis is based on the numerical solution of the fully coupled system of Einstein-Euler equations for spherically symmetric flow, where the dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-08-08 F. D. Lora-Clavijo , M. Gracia-Linares , F. S. Guzman

The co-evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies remains one of the central open questions in cosmology, rooted in the coupling between accretion, feedback, and the multi-scale physics that links the event…

We show that black holes grow substantially by accretion at close to Eddington rates. Using a complete sample of soft X-ray selected AGNs, Grupe & Mathur (2004) have shown that narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies, as a class, lie below the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Smita Mathur , Dirk Grupe

Supermassive black holes are probably present in the centre of the majority of the galaxies. There is a consensus that these exotic objects are formed by the growth of seeds either by accreting mass from a circumnuclear disk and/or by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-15 M. A. Montesinos , J. A. de Freitas Pacheco

Observations of the most luminous quasars at high redshifts ($z > 6$) have revealed that the largest supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at those epochs tend to be substantially overmassive relative to their host galaxies compared to the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-01 Haojie Hu , Kohei Inayoshi , Zoltán Haiman , Wenxiu Li , Eliot Quataert , Rolf Kuiper

Accretion on to seed black holes (BHs) is believed to play a crucial role in formation of supermassive BHs observed at high-redshift (z>6). Here, we investigate the combined effect of gas angular momentum and radiation feedback on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-24 Kazuyuki Sugimura , Takashi Hosokawa , Hidenobu Yajima , Kohei Inayoshi , Kazuyuki Omukai

Supermassive black holes are a key ingredient of galaxy evolution. However, their origin is still highly debated. In one of the leading formation scenarios, a black hole of $\sim100$ M$_{\odot}$ results from the collapse of the inner core…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-12 Davide Fiacconi , Elena M. Rossi

We explore the question of the rapid buildup of black hole mass in the early universe employing a growing black hole mass-based determination of both jet and disk powers predicted in recent theoretical work on black hole accretion and jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-23 Matthew I. Kim , Damian J. Christian , David Garofalo , Jaclyn D'Avanzo