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Primordial supermassive stars (SMSs) formed in atomic-cooling halos at z ~ 15 - 20 are leading candidates for the seeds of the first quasars. Past numerical studies of the evolution of SMSs have typically assumed constant accretion rates…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-21 Tyrone E. Woods , Samuel Patrick , Jacob S. Elford , Daniel J. Whalen , Alexander Heger

This is a starting point of future work on a more detailed study of early evolutionary phases of galactic nuclei. We put into port the study of the evolution of star accretion onto a supermassive gaseous object in the central region of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Amaro-Seoane , R. Spurzem

Highly condensed gaseous objects with masses larger than 5x10^4 M_sun are called super-massive stars. In the quasistationary contraction phase, the hydrostatic equilibrium is determined by radiation pressure and gravitation. The global…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Just , Pau Amaro-Seoane

Spectroscopic observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed young, compact, high-redshift ($z$) galaxies with high nitrogen-to-oxygen (N/O) ratios. GN-z11 at z=10.6 is one of these galaxies. One possible scenario for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-15 Sho Ebihara , Michiko S. Fujii , Takayuki R. Saitoh , Yutaka Hirai , Hideyuki Umeda , Yuki Isobe , Chris Nagele

Supermassive stars (SMS) with masses $M \gtrsim 10^3-10^4 M_{\odot}$, formed by runaway collisions in young, massive, and dense star clusters have been invoked as a possible solution to the puzzles raised by the presence of multiple stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-21 A. Kuruvanthodi , D. Schaerer , M. Messa , A. Adamo , C. Usher , C. Charbonnel , R. Marques-Chaves

The detection of billion-solar-mass supermassive black holes (SMBHs) within the first billion years of cosmic history challenges conventional theories of black hole formation and growth. Simultaneously, recent JWST observations revealing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 Devesh Nandal , Gaël Buldgen , Daniel J. Whalen , John Regan , Tyrone E. Woods , Jonathan C. Tan

One of the most promising explanations for the origin of the billion solar mass black holes (BHs) inferred to power quasars at redshifts z > 6 is that supermassive stars (SMSs) with masses > 10,000 solar masses collapse to form the seed BHs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jarrett L. Johnson , Bhaskar Agarwal , Daniel J. Whalen , Claudio Dalla Vecchia , Christopher L. Fryer , Sadegh Khochfar , Hui Li , Mario Livio

Supermassive stars (SMSs) with masses of $M_\ast \simeq 10^4$--$10^5~{\rm M_\odot}$ are invoked as possible seeds of high-redshift supermassive black holes, but it remains under debate whether their protostar indeed acquires sufficient mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-16 Daisuke Toyouchi , Kohei Inayoshi , Wenxiu Li , Zoltán Haiman , Rolf Kuiper

We present a model for the concurrent formation of globular clusters (GCs) and supermassive stars (SMSs, $>10^3\,{\rm M}_\odot$) to address the origin of the HeCNONaMgAl abundance anomalies in GCs. GCs form in converging gas flows and…

Supermassive stars (SMS; ~ 10^5 M_sun) formed from metal-free gas in the early Universe attract attention as progenitors of supermassive black holes observed at high redshifts. To form SMSs by accretion, central protostars must accrete at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-30 Daisuke Nakauchi , Takashi Hosokawa , Kazuyuki Omukai , Hideyuki Saio , Ken'ichi Nomoto

The direct collapse scenario, which predicts the formation of supermassive stars (SMSs) as precursors to supermassive black holes (SMBHs), has been explored primarily under the assumption of metal-free conditions. However, environments…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-20 Sunmyon Chon , Kazuyuki Omukai

The center of our Galaxy is known to host a massive compact object, Sgr A$^*$, which is commonly considered as a super-massive black hole of $\sim 4\times 10^6$ M$_\odot$. It is surrounded by a dense and massive nuclear star cluster, with a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-28 P. Chassonnery , R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta

Recently discovered supermassive black holes with masses of $\sim10^8\,M_\odot$ at redshifts $z\sim9$-$11$ in active galactic nuclei (AGN) pose severe challenges to our understanding of supermassive black hole formation. One proposed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-17 Cédric Jockel , Kyohei Kawaguchi , Sho Fujibayashi , Masaru Shibata

Collapsing supermassive stars (SMSs) with masses $M \gtrsim 10^{4-6}M_\odot$ have long been speculated to be the seeds that can grow and become supermassive black holes (SMBHs). We previously performed GRMHD simulations of marginally stable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-14 Lunan Sun , Milton Ruiz , Stuart L. Shapiro

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

We describe the formation of a seed massive black hole (MBH) inside a supermassive star (SMS) in a distant galactic nucleus. The short-lived SMS is naturally formed due to collision destructions of normal stars in the evolving galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Veniamin S. Berezinsky , Vyacheslav I. Dokuchaev

Line and continuum studies at centimeter through submillimeter wavelengths address probe deep into the earliest, most active and dust obscured phases of galaxy formation, and reveal the molecular and cool atomic gas. We summarize the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 C. L. Carilli , F. Walter , D. Riechers , R. Wang , E. Daddi , J. Wagg , F. Bertoldi , K. Menten

Direct collapse of supermassive stars (SMSs) is a possible pathway for generating supermassive black holes in the early universe. It is expected that an SMS could form via very rapid mass accretion with Mdot ~ 0.1 - 1 Msun/yr during the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Takashi Hosokawa , Kazuyuki Omukai , Harold W. Yorke

This thesis embraces several aspects of theoretical stellar dynamics in clusters, both analytically and numerically. We try to elucidate the phenomena currently observed in all types of galaxies, including AGNs and quasars, some of the most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-24 Pau Amaro-Seoane

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