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Population III (Pop III) stars, the first generation of stars formed from primordial gas, played a fundamental role in shaping the early universe through their influence on cosmic reionization, early chemical enrichment, and the formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-28 Jake Hassan , Rosalba Perna , Matteo Cantiello , Tyler Parsotan , Davide Lazzati , Nathan Walker

The formation of supermassive stars (SMSs) via rapid mass accretion and their direct collapse into black holes (BHs) is a promising pathway for sowing seeds of supermassive BHs in the early universe. We calculate the evolution of rapidly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Hideyuki Umeda , Takashi Hosokawa , Kazuyuki Omukai , Naoki Yoshida

Supermassive stars (SMSs) with $\sim10^{4-5}~\mathrm{M}_{\odot}$ are candidate objects for the origin of supermassive black holes observed at redshift $z$>6. They are supposed to form in primordial-gas clouds that provide the central stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-18 Ryoki Matsukoba , Eduard I. Vorobyov , Kazuyuki Sugimura , Sunmyon Chon , Takashi Hosokawa , Kazuyuki Omukai

The chemical enrichment of the early Universe is a crucial element in the formation and evolution of galaxies, and Population III (PopIII) stars must play a vital role in this process. In this study, we examine metal enrichment from massive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-07 Devesh Nandal , John A. Regan , Tyrone E. Woods , Eoin Farrell , Sylvia Ekström , Georges Meynet

[Abridged] We present a new grid of massive population III star models including the effects of rotation on the stellar structure and chemical mixing, and magnetic torques for the transport of angular momentum. Based on the grid, we also…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. -C. Yoon , A. Dierks , N. Langer

Supermassive stars (SMSs) of mass $\gtrsim 10^5 M_\odot$ are candidates for seeds of supermassive black holes found in the center of many massive galaxies. We simulate the gravitational collapse of a rigidly rotating SMS core including…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-22 Haruki Uchida , Masaru Shibata , Takashi Yoshida , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Hideyuki Umeda

We calculate the evolution of zero-metallicity Population III (Pop III) stars whose mass grows from the initial mass of $\sim 1M_{\odot}$ by accreting the surrounding gases. Our calculations cover a whole evolutionary stages from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-18 Takuya Ohkubo , Ken'ichi Nomoto , Hideyuki Umeda , Naoki Yoshida , Sachiko Tsuruta

Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified an abundant population of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) already in place during the first few hundred million years of cosmic history. Most of them appear…

The dependence of the final fate of supermassive star (SMS) cores on their mass and angular momentum is studied with simple modeling. SMS cores in the hydrogen burning phase encounter the general relativistic instability during the stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-22 Masaru Shibata , Sho Fujibayashi , Cédric Jockel , Kyohei Kawaguchi

The formation of the most massive quasars observed at high redshifts requires extreme accretion rates ($>1$ M$_\odot$ yr$^{-1}$). Inflows of $10-1000$ M$_\odot$ yr$^{-1}$ are found in hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy mergers, leading to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-06 Lionel Haemmerlé

Approximately two hundred supermassive black holes (SMBHs) have been discovered within the first $\sim$Gyr after the Big Bang. One pathway for the formation of SMBHs is through the collapse of supermassive stars (SMSs). A possible obstacle…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-30 Hiromichi Tagawa , Zoltan Haiman , Bence Kocsis

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

Binary black holes (BBHs) born from the evolution of Population III (Pop. III) stars are one of the main high-redshift targets for next-generation ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors. Their predicted initial mass function and…

Supermassive stars (SMSs) and heavy seed black holes, as their remnants, are promising candidates for Supermassive Black Hole (SMBH) progenitors, especially for ones observed in the early universe $ z\simeq 8.5-10$ by recent JWST…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-21 Masaki Kiyuna , Takashi Hosokawa , Sunmyon Chon

More than two hundred supermassive black holes (SMBHs) of masses $\gtrsim 10^9\,\mathrm{M_{\odot}}$ have been discovered at $z \gtrsim 6$. One promising pathway for the formation of SMBHs is through the collapse of supermassive stars (SMSs)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-18 Arpan Das , Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Nathan W. C. Leigh , Tjarda C. N. Boekholt

The existence of billion-solar-mass quasars at redshifts $z \gtrsim 7$ poses a formidable challenge to theories of black hole formation, requiring pathways for the rapid growth of massive seeds. Population III.1 stars, forming in pristine,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Devesh Nandal , Konstantinos Topalakis , Jonathan C. Tan , Vasilisa Sergienko , Anaïs Pauchett , Maya Petkova

We study stellar core growth in simulations of merging massive ($M_\star>10^{11}\,\mathrm{M}_\odot$) elliptical galaxies by a supermassive black hole (SMBH) displaced by gravitational wave induced recoil velocity. With controlled, dense…

In addition to being spectacular objects, Very Massive Stars (VMS) are suspected to have a tremendous impact on their environment and on the whole cosmic evolution. The nucleosynthesis both during their advanced stages and their final…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 S. Martinet , G. Meynet , S. Ekström , C. Georgy , R. Hirschi

We present an analysis of the chemical compositions in high-redshift galaxies, with a focus on the nitrogen-enhanced galaxies GN-z11 and CEERS-1019. We use stellar models of massive stars with initial masses ranging from 9 to 120 Msol…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-14 Devesh Nandal , Yves Sibony , Sophie Tsiatsiou

The observations of high redshifts quasars at $z\gtrsim 6$ have revealed that supermassive black holes (SMBHs) of mass $\sim 10^9\,\mathrm{M_{\odot}}$ were already in place within the first $\sim$ Gyr after the Big Bang. Supermassive stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 Arpan Das , Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Shantanu Basu , Tjarda C. N. Boekholt