Conditions for optimal growth
of black hole seeds.
As an explanation for the first quasars, each of these pathways for the formation
of black hole seeds has the same problem: the seeds would have to grow extraordinarily quickly within the first billion years of cosmic history to create the earliest quasars.
Not exact matches
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To grow to 109 solar masses, a
black hole seed of 10 solar masses would have to gobble stars and gas unimpeded at the Eddington rate for a billion years.
Seeds to Monsters: Tracing the Growth
of Black Holes in the Universe.
And starting with
seeds in this range alleviates the timing problem for the production
of the supermassive
black holes that power the brightest, most distant quasars.
Building on the work
of several other research groups, my collaborator Giuseppe Lodato and I published a set
of papers in 2006 and 2007 in which we proposed a novel mechanism that could have produced more massive
black hole seeds from the get - go.
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.
The amplitude and frequency
of these waves could reveal the initial mass
of the
seeds from which the first
black holes grew since they were formed 13 billion years ago and provide further clues about what caused them and where they formed, the researchers said.
«By combining the detection
of gravitational waves with simulations we could ultimately work out when and how the first
seeds of supermassive
black holes formed.»
As each
of these theories predicts different initial masses for the
seeds of supermassive
black hole seeds, the collisions would produce different gravitational wave signals.
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.
These energetic particles, called (somewhat misleadingly) cosmic rays, tell revealing tales about the exploding stars and
black holes that have shaped galaxies and
seeded the cosmos with the essential elements
of life.
It may have even provided the
seeds for the supermassive
black holes that seem to anchor all
of the big galaxies.
Now Pedro Montero
of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, and colleagues have calculated how these gas clouds, weighing a million suns, might have evolved into
seed black holes.
And earlier this year, astronomers showed that the early, distant universe is missing the glow
of x-ray light that would be expected from a multitude
of small
black holes — another sign favoring the sudden birth
of big
seeds that go on to be supermassive
black holes.
But Bromm is more optimistic, especially if such direct - collapse
black hole seeds also formed slightly later in the history
of the universe.
Two blobs spotted in the distant, ancient universe may be the
seeds of the supermassive
black holes that now dominate the core
of every galaxy.
In the May 2018 Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society, Schleicher and colleagues show that such clusters also could create massive
black hole seeds, as newly formed stars accrete gas left over in the cluster.
Formation
of massive
seed black holes via collisions and accretion.
Physicists calculated that a tiny
black hole could
seed the formation
of a vacuum — triggering the collapse
of our universe.
The
seeds for these behemoths are thought to be
black holes weighing just a few tens
of solar masses.
Astronomers have previously suggested that these so - called primordial
black holes could account for all or some
of the universe's mysterious dark matter and that they might have
seeded the formation
of supermassive
black holes that exist at the centers
of galaxies.
If the gas cloud named CO -0.40-0.22, located only 200 light - years away from the center
of the Milky Way, does contain an intermediate
black hole, it would provide scientists an opportunity to test the theory that supermassive
black holes evolve from these lower - mass
seeds.
One explanation for the existence
of supermassive
black holes in the early universe postulates that the first
black holes were «
seeds» that grew into much larger
black holes by gravitationally attracting and then swallowing matter.
The fact that globular clusters have these small
black holes implies that they are excellent candidates to act as the
seeds for the supermassive
black holes that lurk in the centers
of nearly all galaxies.
«You could either make the
black hole all at once, when the galaxy is forming, by dumping a lot
of material in the middle, or you could start with a
seed black hole that subsequently grows over time.
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.