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Formation of the First Supermassive Black Holes
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We consider the physical conditions under which supermassive black holes could have formed inside the first galaxies. Our smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations indicate that metal-free galaxies with a virial temperature of ~10 4 K and suppressed H 2 formation (due to an intergalactic UV background) tend to form a binary black hole system that contains a substantial fraction (≳10%) of the total baryonic mass of the host galaxy. Fragmentation into stars is suppressed without substantial H 2 cooling. Our simulations follow the condensation of ~5 × 10 6 M ☉ around the two centers of the binary down to a scale of ≲0.1 pc. Low-spin galaxies form a single black hole instead. These early black holes lead to quasar activity before the epoch of reionization. Primordial black hole binaries lead to gravitational radiation emission at redshifts z ≳ 10 that would be detectable by Laser Interferometer Space Antenna .
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- Authors
- Bromm, V., & Loeb, A.
- Venue
- The Astrophysical Journal
- Publisher
- American Astronomical Society
- Published
- 2003-10-10
- Volume
- 596
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 34-46
- ISSN
- 0004-637X (ISSN-L)
- 1538-4357
- OpenAlex
- W2083870045
- Cited by
- 810
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 10.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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