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The origin of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) that inhabit the centers of massive galaxies is largely unconstrained. Remnants from supermassive stars (SMSs) with masses around 10,000 solar masses provide the ideal seed candidates, known as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-21 John H. Wise , John A. Regan , Brian W. O'Shea , Michael L. Norman , Turlough P. Downes , Hao Xu

We develop a model for galaxy formation and the growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs), based on the fact that cold dark matter (CDM) halos form their gravitational potential wells through a fast phase with rapid change in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-19 Houjun Mo , Yangyao Chen , Huiyuan Wang

We derive the upper limit on the dark matter (DM) fraction in primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mixed DM scenarios. In this scenarios, a PBH can accrete weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) to form a ultracompact minihalo (UCMH)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-06 Yupeng Yang , Xiujuan Li , Gang Li

We report on a calculation of the growth of the mass of supermassive black holes at galactic centers from dark matter and Eddington - limited baryonic accretion. Assuming that dark matter halos are made of fermions and harbor compact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Faustin Munyaneza , Peter L. Biermann

The detection of quasars at $z>6$ unveils the presence of supermassive black holes (BHs) of a few billion solar masses. The rapid formation process of these extreme objects remains a fascinating and open issue. Such discovery implies that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-26 Muhammad A. Latif , Andrea Ferrara

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

Motivated by JWST observations of dense, clumpy and clustered high redshift star formation, we simulate the hierarchical assembly of nine $M_{\mathrm{cl}}=10^6 M_\odot$ star clusters using the BIFROST N-body code. Our low metallicity models…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-08 Antti Rantala , Thorsten Naab

We explore the expected X-ray (0.5-2keV) signatures from super massive black holes (SMBHs) at high redshifts ($z\sim5-12$) assuming various models for their seeding mechanism and evolution. The seeding models are approximated through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-21 Sagi Ben-Ami , Alexey Vikhlinin , Abraham Loeb

We have modeled direct collapse of a primordial gas within dark matter halos in the presence of radiative transfer, in high-resolution zoom-in simulations in a cosmological framework, down to the formation of the photosphere and the central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-04 Kazem Ardaneh , Yang Luo , Isaac Shlosman , Kentaro Nagamine , John H. Wise , Mitchell C. Begelman

The origins and mergers of supermassive black holes (BHs) remain a mystery. We describe a scenario from a novel multi-physics simulation featuring rapid ($\lesssim 1\,$Myr) hyper-Eddington gas capture by a $\sim 1000\,{\rm M}_{\odot}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-09 Yanlong Shi , Kyle Kremer , Philip F. Hopkins

We explore the cosmic evolution of massive black hole (MBH) seeds forming within 'quasistars' (QSs), accreting black holes embedded within massive hydrostatic gaseous envelopes. These structures could form if the infall of gas into the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Marta Volonteri , Mitchell C. Begelman

We track the growth and evolution of high redshift seed black holes over cosmic time. This population of massive, initial black hole seeds form at these early epochs from the direct collapse of pre-galactic gas discs. Populating dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Priyamvada Natarajan

Most galaxies, including the Milky Way, host a supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center. These SMBHs can be observed out to high redshifts (z>=6) if the accretion rate is sufficiently large. However, we do not fully understand the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-25 Elizabeth Mone , Brandon Pries , John Wise , Sandrine Ferrans

We analyze the dynamics of low-mass black hole (BH) seeds in the high-redshift ($z\gtrsim5$) Universe using a suite of $[4.5~\mathrm{Mpc}]^3$ and $[9~\mathrm{Mpc}]^3$ BRAHMA cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. The simulations form seeds…

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies are generally thought to coevolve, so that the SMBH achieves up to about 0.2 to 0.5% of the host galaxy mass in the present day. The radiation emitted from the growing SMBH is…

Recent James Webb Space Telescope observations have unveiled that the first supermassive black holes (SMBHs) were in place at z $\geq$ 10, a few hundred Myrs after the Big Bang. These discoveries are providing strong constraints on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-31 Muhammad A. Latif , Sadegh Khochfar

JWST has recently revealed a large population of accreting black holes (BHs) in the early Universe. Even after accounting for possible systematic biases, the high-z $M_*-M_{\rm \rm bh}$ relation derived from these objects by Pacucci et al.…

Most of the galaxies harbor supermassive Black Holes (SMBH) in their center. Some of them are observed in very high redshifts. We explore the possibility that SMBH form from the coherent waves of Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) which are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-08 M. Morikawa , S. Takahashi

We propose a mechanism of producing a new type of primordial perturbations that collapse to primordial black holes whose mass can be as large as necessary for them to grow to the supermassive black holes observed at high redshifts, without…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-28 Tomohiro Nakama , Teruaki Suyama , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

We study the matter power spectrum constraint on primordial black holes (PBH) by the dark matter (DM) emitted through Hawking radiation. We particularly focus on the scenario where PBH, with mass ranges between 1g and $10^9$g, evaporates…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-06 Yu-Ming Chen