Black Hole Demographics

Abstract

The purpose of this contribution is to review the current status of black hole demographics in light of recent advances in the study of high redshift QSOs (section 2), local AGNs (section 3) and local quiescent galaxies (section 4). I will then outline the prospects for future progress (section 5), and discuss what I believe will be the challenges for the years to come [ABRIDGED].

Invited talk, to appear in "Current High-Energy Emission around Black Holes" Proc. 2nd KIAS Astrophysics Workshop held in Seoul, Korea (Sep 3-7 2001) ed. C.-H. Lee. Singapore: World Scientific

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