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Title: The early growth of the first black holes

Journal Article · · Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2016.4· OSTI ID:1304824
 [1];  [2]
  1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  2. Univ. dell'Insubria, Como (Italy)

With detections of quasars powered by increasingly massive black holes at increasingly early times in cosmic history over the past decade, there has been correspondingly rapid progress made on the theory of early black hole formation and growth. Here, we review the emerging picture of how the first massive black holes formed from the primordial gas and then grew to supermassive scales. We discuss the initial conditions for the formation of the progenitors of these seed black holes, the factors dictating the initial masses with which they form, and their initial stages of growth via accretion, which may occur at super-Eddington rates. Lastly, we briefly discuss how these results connect to large-scale simulations of the growth of supermassive black holes in the first billion years after the Big Bang.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE (originally DOE/LANL)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
1304824
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-15-20293; applab
Journal Information:
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Vol. 33; ISSN 1323-3580
Publisher:
CSIROCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 39 works
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