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On the Detection of Supermassive Primordial Stars
Marco Surace, Daniel J. Whalen, Tilman Hartwig +6
The collapse of supermassive primordial stars in hot, atomically-cooled halos may have given birth to the first quasars at 15 - 20. Recent numerical simulations of these r…
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Titans of the Early Universe: The Prato Statement on the Origin of the First Supermassive Black Holes
Tyrone E. Woods, Bhaskar Agarwal, Volker Bromm +30
In recent years, the discovery of massive quasars at z~7 has provided a striking challenge to our understanding of the origin and growth of supermassive black holes in the early Un…