• DOI:10.1093/mnras/stw1924
Corpus ID: 118409029

On the number density of 'direct collapse' black hole seeds

@article{Habouzit2016OnTN,
  title={On the number density of 'direct collapse' black hole seeds},
  author={M{\'e}lanie Habouzit and M. Volonteri and M. Latif and Y. Dubois and S. Peirani},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={2016},
  volume={463},
  pages={529-540}
}

Mélanie Habouzit, M. Volonteri, +2 authors S. Peirani

Published 2016

Physics

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Supermassive black holes (BHs) reside in the centre of most local galaxies, but they also power active galactic nuclei and quasars, detected up to z = 7. These quasars put constraints on early BH growth and the mass of BH seeds. The scenario of ‘direct collapse’ is appealing as it leads to the formation of large mass BH seeds, 104–106 M⊙, which eases explaining how quasars at z = 6–7 are powered by BHs with masses >109 M⊙. Direct collapse, however, appears to be rare, as the conditions required… CONTINUE READING

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