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There is controversy surrounding the origin and evolution of our universe's largest supermassive black holes (SMBHs). In this study, we consider the possibility that some of these black holes formed from the direct collapse of primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-21 Dan Hooper , Aurora Ireland , Gordan Krnjaic , Albert Stebbins

So far, roughly 40 quasars with redshifts greater than z=6 have been discovered. Each quasar contains a black hole with a mass of about one billion solar masses ($10^9 M_\odot$). The existence of such black holes when the Universe was less…

While large numbers of supermassive black holes have been detected at z>6, their origin is still essentially unclear. Numerical simulations have shown that the conditions for the classical direct collapse scenario are very restrictive and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-13 D. R. G. Schleicher , B. Reinoso , M. Latif , R. S. Klessen , M. Z. C. Vergara , A. Das , P. Alister , V. B. Díaz , P. A. Solar

It has been proposed that the first, intermediate-mass ($\approx 10^{5-6}~M_\odot$) black holes might form through direct collapse of unpolluted gas in atomic-cooling halos exposed to a strong Lyman-Werner (LW) or near-infrared (NIR)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Bin Yue , Andrea Ferrara , Ruben Salvaterra , Yidong Xu , Xuelei Chen

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

We present an analysis of the quenching of star formation in massive galaxies ($M_* > 10^{9.5} M_\odot$) within the first 0.5 - 3 Gyr of the Universe's history utilizing JWST-CEERS data. We utilize a combination of advanced statistical…

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

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

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are common in local galactic nuclei, and SMBHs as massive as several billion solar masses already exist at redshift z=6. These earliest SMBHs may grow by the combination of radiation-pressure-limited…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Zoltán Haiman

Supermassive black holes (SMBH) of size $10^{6-10}M_{\odot}$ are common in the Universe and they define the center of the galaxies. A galaxy and the SMBH are generally thought to have co-evolved. However, the SMBH cannot evolve so fast as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-14 Masahiro Morikawa

The high redshift ($z>10$) galaxies GHZ9 and UHZ1 observed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are very massive and have exceptionally high black hole-to-star mass ratios with the central black hole masses $M\gtrsim 10^7\rm~M_\odot$.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-10 Hai-Long Huang , Yu-Tong Wang , Yun-Song Piao

This paper investigates the phenomenon of emergence of spatial curvature. This phenomenon is absent in the Standard Cosmological Model, which has a flat and fixed spatial curvature (small perturbations are considered in the Standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-01 Krzysztof Bolejko

Creation of a black hole in quantum cosmology is the third way of black hole formation. In contrast to the gravitational collapse from a massive body in astrophysics or from the quantum fluctuation of matter fields in the very early…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Wu Zhong Chao

Observations of local galaxies harbouring supermassive black holes (BHs) of anomalously high mass, M_BH, relative to their stellar mass, M_star, appear to be at odds with simple models of the co-evolution between galaxies and their central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-18 Christopher Barber , Joop Schaye , Richard G. Bower , Robert A. Crain , Matthieu Schaller , Tom Theuns

The high redshifts of the most distant known quasars, and the best estimates of their black hole masses, require that supermassive black holes (SMBHs) must have formed very early in history. Several mechanisms for creating and growing these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Craig Tyler , Brent Janus , Diego Santos-Noble

We investigate the possibility that the recently identified population of high-redshift, obscured quasars - known as "Little Red Dots" (LRDs) - originates from early black hole seed formation driven by ultra-strongly self-interacting dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-10 M. Grant Roberts , Lila Braff , Aarna Garg , Stefano Profumo , Tesla Jeltema

Observations of hyper-luminous quasars at $z>6$ reveal the rapid growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs $>10^9 \rm M_{\odot}$) whose origin is still difficult to explain. Their progenitors may have formed as remnants of massive, metal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-30 F. Sassano , R. Schneider , R. Valiante , K. Inayoshi , S. Chon , K. Omukai , L. Mayer , P. R. Capelo

Based on the physical model of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth via gas accretion in a circumnuclear disk (CND) proposed by Kawakatu & Wada (2008), we describe the formation of high-$z$ ($z > 6$) quasars (QSOs) whose BH masses are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Nozomu Kawakatu , Keiichi Wada

Observations of $z \sim 6$ quasars powered by supermassive black holes (SMBHs; $M_{\rm BH} \sim 10^{8-10}\, M_\odot$) challenge our current understanding of early black hole (BH) formation and evolution. The advent of the James Webb Space…

We present a new semi-analytic model that self-consistently traces the growth of supermassive black holes (BH) and their host galaxies within the context of the LCDM cosmological framework. In our model, the energy emitted by accreting…