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Observations by JWST have confirmed the presence of supermassive black holes (BHs) at redshifts $z\gtrsim10$, lending support to scenarios in which BHs experience rapid growth through intense gas accretion. Here we investigate the growth of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 Jake Hassan , Rosalba Perna , Matteo Cantiello , Philip Armitage , Mitchell Begelman , Taeho Ryu

We present radiation hydrodynamics simulations of the collapse of massive pre-stellar cores. We treat frequency dependent radiative feedback from stellar evolution and accretion luminosity at a numerical resolution down to 1.27 AU. In the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Rolf Kuiper , Hubert Klahr , Henrik Beuther , Thomas Henning

We study the formation of massive Population III binary stars using a newly developed radiation hydrodynamics code with the adaptive mesh refinement and adaptive ray-tracing methods. We follow the evolution of a typical primordial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-16 Kazuyuki Sugimura , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Takashi Hosokawa , Shingo Hirano , Kazuyuki Omukai

The first stars formed over five orders of magnitude in mass by accretion in primordial dark matter halos. We study the evolution of massive, very massive and supermassive primordial (Pop III) stars over nine orders of magnitude in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-25 Devesh Nandal , Lorenz Zwick , Daniel J. Whalen , Lucio Mayer , Sylvia Ekström , Georges Meynet

We present 2D hydrodynamical simulations for the evolution of early-type galaxies containing central massive black holes (MBHs), starting at age 2 Gyr. The code contains accurate and physically consistent radiative and mechanical AGN wind…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 L. Ciotti , S. Pellegrini , A. Negri , J. P. Ostriker

Understanding the origin of high-mass stars is central to modern astrophysics. We shed light on this problem with simulations using a novel, adaptive-mesh, ray-tracing algorithm. These simulations consistently follow the gravitational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-14 Thomas Peters , Ralf S. Klessen , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Robi Banerjee

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 present a new semi-analytic model of the formation of the first stars. Our method takes dark matter halo merger trees (including 3-dimensional spatial information) from cosmological N-body simulations as input and applies analytic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-15 Eli Visbal , Greg L. Bryan , Zoltan Haiman

We investigate the effect of radiative feedback on the star formation process using radiation hydrodynamical simulations. We repeat the previous hydrodynamical star cluster formation simulations of Bate et al., and Bate & Bonnell, but we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Matthew R. Bate

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with masses exceeding $10^6 \mathrm{M}_{\odot}$ at redshifts $z > 8$, posing significant challenges to existing models of early black…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-22 Daxal H. Mehta , John A. Regan , Lewis Prole

Formation of massive stars by accretion requires a high accretion rate of > 10^-4 M_sun/yr to overcome the radiation pressure barrier of the forming stars. Here, we study evolution of protostars accreting at such high rates, by solving the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Takashi Hosokawa , Kazuyuki Omukai

We run and analyze a suite of high-redshift zoom-in cosmological simulations with varying supernova feedback and supermassive black hole (SMBH) accretion prescriptions to study the joint evolution of stellar and SMBH mass in high-redshift…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-07 Ziyong Wu , Renyue Cen , Romain Teyssier

First, the formation of first objects driven by dark matter is revisited by high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations. It is revealed that dark matter haloes of ~10^4M_sun can produce first luminous objects with the aid of dark matter cusps.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-10-30 Masayuki Umemura , Hajime Susa , Kenji Hasegawa , Tamon Suwa , Benoit Semelin

The relation between the galaxy stellar mass M_star and the dark matter halo mass M_h gives important information on the efficiency in forming stars and assembling stellar mass in galaxies. We present the stellar mass to halo mass ratio…

Among the emerging excess of massive, bright galaxies at Cosmic Dawn $z \gtrsim 9$ seen by the James Webb Space Telescope, several exhibit spectral features associated with active galactic nuclei (AGN). These AGN candidates suggest that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-23 James Sunseri , Zachary L. Andalman , Romain Teyssier

We propose a novel source of gravitational wave emission: the inspirals of compact fragments inside primordial supermassive stars (SMSs). Such systems are thought to be an essential channel in the as-yet little understood formation of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 Yael Raveh , Yonadav Barry Ginat , Hagai B. Perets , Tyrone E. Woods

The formation and evolution of low-mass stars within dense halos of dark matter (DM) leads to evolution scenarios quite different from the classical stellar evolution. As a result of our detailed numerical work, we describe these new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Jordi Casanellas , Ilidio Lopes

Any successful model of galaxy formation needs to explain the low rate of star formation in the small progenitors of today's galaxies. This inefficiency is necessary for reproducing the low stellar-to-virial mass fractions, suggested by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Daniel Ceverino , Anatoly Klypin , Elizabeth Klimek , Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez , Christopher W. Churchill , Joel Primack , Avishai Dekel

We introduce a new model for the formation and evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the RAMSES code using sink particles, improving over previous work the treatment of gas accretion and dynamical evolution. This new model is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-11 Pawel Biernacki , Romain Teyssier , Andreas Bleuler

If supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are the energy sources that power quasars and active galactic nuclei, then QSO SDSS 1148+5251, the quasar with the highest redshift (z_QSO=6.43), hosts a supermassive black hole formed within 0.9 Gyr…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stuart L. Shapiro