From Seeds to Supermassive Black Holes: Capture, Growth, Migration, and Pairing in Dense Protobulge Environments
Yanlong Shi,
Kyle Kremer,
Philip F. Hopkins
Abstract:The origins and mergers of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) remain a mystery. We describe a scenario from a novel multiphysics simulation featuring rapid (≲1 Myr) hyper-Eddington gas capture by a ∼1000 M
⊙ “seed” black hole (BH) up to supermassive (≳106
M
⊙) masses in a massive, dense molecular cloud complex typical of high-redshift starbursts. Due to the high cloud density, stellar feedback is inefficient, and most of the gas turns into stars in star clust… Show more
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