Origin of supermassive black holes in massive metal-poor protoclusters
D. R. G. Schleicher,
B. Reinoso,
M. Latif
et al.
Abstract:While large numbers of supermassive black holes have been detected at 𝑧 > 6, their origin is still essentially unclear. Numerical simulations have shown that the conditions for the classical direct collapse scenario are very restrictive and fragmentation is very difficult to be avoided. We thus consider here a more general case of a dense massive protostar cluster at low metallicity ( 10 −3 Z ) embedded in gas. We estimate the mass of the central massive object, formed via collisions and gas accretion, consid… Show more
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