68 citations · 98 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
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astro-ph.GA2022★ 30 cited
Super-critical accretion of medium-weight seed black holes in gaseous proto-galactic nuclei
Federica Sassano, Pedro R. Capelo, Lucio Mayer +2
Accretion at sustained or episodic super-Eddington (SE) rates has been proposed as a pathway to grow efficiently light seeds produced by Pop-III stars. We investigate if SE accreti…
astro-ph.GA2021★ 68 cited
Light, medium-weight or heavy? The nature of the first supermassive black hole seeds
F. Sassano, R. Schneider, R. Valiante +5
Observations of hyper-luminous quasars at reveal the rapid growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs ) whose origin is still difficult to explain. Their…