The early growth of supermassive black holes in cosmological hydrodynamic simulations with constrained Gaussian realizations

Abstract

The paper examines the early growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in cosmological hydrodynamic simulations with different BH seeding scenarios. Employing the constrained Gaussian realization, we reconstruct the initial conditions in the large-volume BlueTides simulation and run them to $z=6$ to cross-validate that the method reproduces the first quasars and their environments. Our constrained simulations in a volume of $(15h^{-1}\mathrm{Mpc}{)}^3$ successfully recover the evolution of large-scale structure and the stellar and BH masses in the vicinity of a $\sim 10^{12}{M}_{\odot }$ halo which we identified in BlueTides at $z\sim 7$ hosting a $\sim 10^9{M}_{\odot }$ SMBH. Among our constrained simulations, only the ones with a low-tidal field and high-density peak in the initial conditions induce the fastest BH growth required to explain the $z>6$ quasars. We run two sets of simulations with different BH seed masses of $5\times 10^3$, $5\times 10^4$, and $5\times 10^5{h}^{-1}{M}_{\odot }$, (a) with the same ratio of halo to BH seed mass and (b) with the same halo threshold mass. At $z=6$, all the SMBHs converge in mass to $\sim 10^9{M}_{\odot }$ except for the one with the smallest seed in (b) undergoing critical BH growth and reaching $10^8$ -- $10^9{M}_{\odot }$, albeit with most of the growth in (b) delayed compared to set (a). The finding of eight BH mergers in the small-seed scenario (four with masses $10^4$ -- $10^6{M}_{\odot }$ at $z>12$), six in the intermediate-seed scenario, and zero in the large-seed scenario suggests that the vast BHs in the small-seed scenario merge frequently during the early phases of the growth of SMBHs. The increased BH merger rate for the low-mass BH seed and halo threshold scenario provides an exciting prospect for discriminating BH formation mechanisms with the advent of multi-messenger astrophysics and next-generation gravitational wave facilities.

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