Sentences with phrase «collapse black hole seed»

«In this way, a massive direct collapse black hole seed can form in the second galaxy, which can evolve rather quickly to a billion solar mass black hole by the time they are observed in the universe,» he said in the statement.

But Bromm is more optimistic, especially if such direct - collapse black hole seeds also formed slightly later in the history of the universe.

Not exact matches

Singularities can also serve as seeds of destruction, lurking in the centres of black holes, the final endpoints of total gravitational collapse.

Current theories suggest that the seeds of these black holes were the result of either the growth and collapse of the first generation of stars in the Universe; collisions between stars in dense stellar clusters; or the direct collapse of extremely massive stars in the early Universe.

One possibility is that seed black holes grew out of the demise of the earliest stars; another explanation is that gaseous pre-galactic disks gravitationally collapsed to create nascent black holes.

If the cloud contained fewer heavy elements providing outward pressure, gravity would win out and the cloud would collapse into a seed black hole.

One theory suggests huge gas clouds around at the time collapsed into middleweight «seed» black holes.

Physicists calculated that a tiny black hole could seed the formation of a vacuum — triggering the collapse of our universe.

Such direct - collapse black holes, weighing 100,000 to 1 million suns, could then act as «seeds» for supermassive black holes weighing 1 million to 1 billion suns.

This newer explanation, the so - called «direct collapse black hole model,» suggests that very large gas clouds — of between 10,000 and 100,000 solar masses — collapsed directly to become the seeds of the black holes.